Cosmos

Name: Cosmos
Genre: Drama
Released: June 17, 2016
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 74

2016

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 17, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Witold who has just failed the bar, and his companion Fuchs, who has recently quit his fashion job, are staying at a guesthouse run by the intermittently paralytic Madame Woytis. Upon discovering a sparrow hanged in the woods near the house, Witold's reality mutates into a whirlwind of tension, histrionics, foreboding omens, andWitold who has just failed the bar, and his companion Fuchs, who has recently quit his fashion job, are staying at a guesthouse run by the intermittently paralytic Madame Woytis. Upon discovering a sparrow hanged in the woods near the house, Witold's reality mutates into a whirlwind of tension, histrionics, foreboding omens, and surrealistic logic as he becomes obsessed with Madame Woytis's daughter Lena, newly married to Lucien.… Expand

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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RogerEbert.com Scout Tafoya

Jun 17, 2016

Reality has never been this fun, even if it's frequently this random and hopeless. Better to take the oblong fantasy. Read full review

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Alan Scherstuhl

Jun 15, 2016

Everyone's reeling from dreads and reveries they can't quite comprehend, and Zulawski's daft incidents, comic sketches, and stabs of profundity will likely put you into a similar awed stupor. Read full review

The Film Stage Nick Newman

Jun 16, 2016

A filmmaker who values the power of shock, but not necessarily thrills for thrills’ sake, Żuławski elucidates material with tools that announce themselves in their presentation — surprising camera dollies, fast pans, sudden cuts, overly prominent music cues — and raise complex questions about their relation to one another. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Jun 16, 2016

It’s often hilarious, confounding and downright strange; if not the director’s most polished work, it nevertheless delivers a demented philosophical puzzle that’s fun to scrutinize in all of its baffling uncertainties. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Jun 16, 2016

There is a real sense of poignancy and heartache in random scenes with Azema or Balmer and even if the film deliberately eschews easy comprehension it remains involving and intriguing enough to keep the viewer on board. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jun 16, 2016

Zulawski maintains such expert control of the film’s look and tone that there can be no question that each choice has been deliberate, whatever the significance. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jun 16, 2016

It is possible to appreciate Mr. Zulawski’s perverse ingenuity, and to miss his eye and voice, without quite succumbing to the strenuous charms and overcooked provocations of Cosmos. Read full review

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