The life of Mike Webster, a smart scientist, who works hard to prove his theory, when he finds out that there is a real world in space, as he speaks to aliens, has been turned upside down.
Confined to a few locations and shaking with ecstasy, possibility and the torment of being alive, "Cosmos" is like absinthe distilled secretly in a prison cell.
Parodying the whodunit and the country house farce, this gleefully deranged romp is undeniably a head-scratcher. But it's also bold, witty and rewarding.
A movie that, like the book, ends but doesn't quite concludes. Some ambiguity and the possibility of giving different ends to reality and to fiction are imposed. And the bewilderment, of course. [Full review in Spanish]
Cultists can claim it as proof Żuławski was doing his own thing until the end, but the film didn't need releasing so much as sectioning for public safety.
[An] intellectually playful and slyly subversive treatise on communication, freedom, identity and chaos that pays homage to a range of literary and cinematic influences, including Wojciech Has, Jacques Rivette and Luis Buñuel.
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."
