Cosmos
The Garden Cinema39-41 Parker Street, London
Fri 25 Sept · 18:00 · £15
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Screenings of Cosmos will feature a pre-recorded introduction from writer and frequent Żuławski collaborator, Daniel Bird. When two young men arrive at a family-run guesthouse in rural France, their anticipation of a few days’ peace and quiet is undermined by a variety of sinister occurrences. A small bird is found murdered, its neck in a tiny noose, a strangely sexualised stain appears on a wall, and a slug crawls across the breakfast tray. Are these all signs comprising a portent of truly cosmic significance, or merely bizarre coincidences? And is it any wonder that one of the visitors, Witold has such difficulty writing his novel, or that his companion Fuchs prefers to find solace in earthier pleasures? The final film by Andrzej Żuławski, Cosmos adapts Witold Gombrowicz’s legendarily challenging novel into a beguilingly witty combination of lighthearted French farce and a complex, knowing reflection on the absurdities both of humanity itself and the way that we define our notion of the universe according to our individual hang-ups. Cast: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer
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