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Originally Posted by Slippery Jack  Yet to see it, but I highly doubt it will best Leos Carax's man-going-across-the-city-in-a-limo epic Holy Motors  still firmly at number 1 in my faves of the year thus far . . . |
It doesn't. Oh no, no, no it doesn't. Thing is, there's obvious parallels between the two films. But Carax's
Holy Motors is vibrant and enthralling, while
Cosmopolis is sluggish and insipid. And although I haven't read the source, I
get it - DeLillo's
White Noise remains a favourite of mine, so I'm familiar with the author's style. But I do feel Cronenberg dropped the ball on what I'm sure is a tricky text to translate, but then I feel his work has become more stagnate over the years. If he'd had a stab at it 15 years ago, I'm sure it might have been a different beast - but of course the novel was only written in 2003. It needed a fresher director. Eric Packer is a boring character, but it doesn't mean the film needed to be directed in a boring way. After all, Mary Harron succeeded in putting the charisma vacumn Patrick Bateman on the screen.
Put simply,
Holy Motors is one of my films of the year. While
Cosmopolis shamefully joins the ranks of
John Carter etc as one of the very
worst (for very different reasons of course). Boy, it was a slog.