Synopsis
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
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Cast
- Jonathan GenetWitold
- Johan LibéreauFuchs
- Sabine AzémaMadame Woytis
- Jean-François BalmerLeon
- Victoria GuerraLena
- Andy GilletLucien
- Clémentine PonsCatherette / Ginette
- Ricardo PereiraTolo
- António SimãoCuré
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
Made 15 years after Żuławski’s last film, Cosmos makes for a fittingly offbeat and mystifying statement of purpose for a filmmaker fascinated by confrontations with the cosmic unknown. - 83
The Film Stage
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. - 80
Village Voice
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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
With all farces, timing and rhythms are absolutely crucial and Zulawski — working with editor Julia Gregory — maintains a disarming brio from the very first seconds. - 75
IndieWire
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. - 70
Screen Daily
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. - 70
Variety
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. - 63
Slant Magazine
Andrzej Zulawski's film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.
