Un giovane, sperando di scrivere un romanzo, visita una pensione francese con un amico, ma si ritrova distratto da uno strano mistero e dagli strani abitanti della casa.Un giovane, sperando di scrivere un romanzo, visita una pensione francese con un amico, ma si ritrova distratto da uno strano mistero e dagli strani abitanti della casa.Un giovane, sperando di scrivere un romanzo, visita una pensione francese con un amico, ma si ritrova distratto da uno strano mistero e dagli strani abitanti della casa.
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- 1 vittoria e 8 candidature totali
Recensioni in evidenza
The backgrounds of the two young men are juxtaposed brilliantly to the mayhem that is going on around them. Witold seems to be a frustrated dilettante and writer who is wont to fall in love and Fuchs is a force of nature who sparkles with a misplaced energy – if such a thing really exists. The increasing madness seems to deliberately challenge any form of acceptable narrative whilst telling stories that will, eventually, add up to the whole.
This will not be a film for everyone; it can be seen as 'art house' or even deliberately annoying, but when you peel back the layers there is so much here that it is actually a celluloid feast. The performances are at once over the top and sensational as well as being sensationalist. Jean-François Balmer as Leon the patriarch of the house is just sublime as is his screen wife - Sabine Azéma. But the real star is writer and director Andrzej Zulawski who sadly died in February. As far as a Swan song could go it would be hard to beat such a piece of original work as this – he will be truly missed. If you like cinema that challenges convention and has its heart firmly planted on its, over acting, sleeve then be prepared for a treat.
The spilled peas scene, the moss-ridden family home of Witold, the vomiting priest...yes it is very arty. But it's not pretentious in the least - it is just driven by a crazed zest for life in all its stressed and neurotic forms. Don't worry about following it, just put your feet up and enjoy.
To be clear, I don't know how much of 'Cosmos' as we see it purely reflects Witold Gombrowicz's novel, and how much stems from Zulawski's adapted screenplay. This, and the vague detection of some form of narrative, are the only facets of the writing about which I can claim any certainty. Terry Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Alejandro Jodorowsky combined could not conjure characters, dialogue, or scene writing more weird, wild, exaggerated, cartoonish, disparate, and downright inscrutable. Amidst it all I see glimmers of something grander, the faint shadow of whatever vision that was intended for this tableau. Such wisps are outnumbered and overwhelmed on all sides by the towering babel that the movie otherwise represents, a perplexing assemblage of bizarrerie that's strung together like a surrealist daisy chain. Well and truly, I just don't know what to make of any of it.
It's well done, whatever "it" is. One can appreciate art without wholly grasping it. On the other hand, it would be appreciated far more if it weren't 100%, consciously impenetrable. Emphasizing the point, I can't tell if the line "He never knew how to finish his novels, nor their meaning" is a plainspoken admission, or a joking tease. Once more, I offer my sincere, wholehearted congratulations to viewers who watch 'Cosmos' and genuinely See it, and Understand. I'm mystified, and admiration of the fundamental labor that went into it only gets one so far.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizWriter/director Andrzej Zulawski first film since La fidélité (2000) 15 years prior. It also ended up being his final film, the filmmaker passing away the year following its release.
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Witold: I'm afraid of the dark. All the dark cavities. This toad is all about its slippery moisture.
Fuchs: A crooked mouth and a dark cavity encroaked with the sparrow in a sphere of toady-sparrowy-Catherettery.
Witold: I'm shocked!
Fuchs: A few more days with you and I'll win the Nobel Prize in thrillerettery.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Mowa ptaków (2019)
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 1.648.534 € (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 25.856 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 3807 USD
- 19 giu 2016
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 34.393 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 43 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1