Cosmos

Name: Cosmos
Rating: 3

Director

Denis Villeneuve, Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin

Synopsis

A film about the absurdities of everyday life, Cosmos is not so much six short films as it is one film with multiple storylines which interlace seamlessly. The styles, interests and rhythms of the six filmmakers blend together, producing a cohesive whole that is often comic, often tragic – and, at times, both. In Cosmos an immigrant Greek cab driver leads us through storylines as intricate as big city traffic as our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.

Cast

Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Pascal Contamine, Marie-France Lambert, Alexis Martin, Sebastien Joannette, Eve Gadouas

Crew

Writers: Marie-Julie Dallaire (segments: The Individual), Sebastien Joannette (segments: The Individual), Denis Villeneuve (segments: The Technetium); Composer: Michel Smith; Cinematographer: André Turpin; Editor: Richard Comeau

Festivals

Director's Filmography

Jennifer Alleyn's Filmography:

- Impetus, 2018

- La terre nous est étroite, short, 2014

- A Few Lost Words, short, 2012

- Dix fois DIx, 2011

- La Vie imaginée de Jacques Monory, short, 2006

- Svanok, short, 2006

- Les Rossy, short, 2002

- Cosmos, Segment: Aurore & Crépuscule, 1996

Manon Briand's Filmography:

- Liverpool, 2012

- Chaos and Desire, 2002

- 2 Seconds, 1998

- Cosmos, Segment: Boost, 1996

- Picoti Picota, short, 1996

- Croix de bois, short, 1992

- Les sauf-conduits, 1991

Marie-Julie Dallaire's Filmography:

- Big Giant Wave, 2020

- Happiness Bound, 2007

- Notre père, 2006

- Cosmos, Segment: The Individual, 1996

Arto Paragamian's Filmography:

- Two Thousand and None, 2000

- Cosmos, Segment: Cosmos & Agriculture, 1996

- Because Why, 1993

André Turpin's Filmography:

- Endorphine, 2015

- Take Me, 2014

- Sept heures trois fois par année, short, 2012

- Ina Litovski, short, 2012

- Soft Shell Man, 2001

- Cosmos, Segment: Jules & Fanny, 1996

- Zigrail, 1995

- Comme hier matin, short, 1987

Denis Villeneuve's Filmography:

- Dune, 2021

- Blade Runner 2049, 2017

- Arrival, 2016

- Sicario, 2015

- Enemy, 2013

- Prisoners, 2013

- Etude empirique sur l'influence du son sur la persistance rétinienne, short, 2011

- Rated R for Nudity, short, 2011

- Incendies, 2010

- Polytechnique, 2009

- Next Floor, short, 2008

- Happiness Bound, 2007

- 120 Seconds to Get Elected, short, 2006

- Maelstrom, 2000

- August 32nd on Earth, 1998

- Cosmos, Segment: The Technetium, 1996

- REW FFWD, short, 1994