Dates: Thursday 17 June
Start time: 7.30pm
Space: The Auditorium
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
We’re thrilled to welcome Deeper Into Movies to Peckham Levels for more expertly curated screenings of cult classics, overlooked gems and important contemporary cinema.
Cronenberg trades in body horror for capital decay in this glacial, hyper-intellectual adaptation of Don DeLillo’s postmodern novel—a claustrophobic odyssey through a collapsing financial empire and the psyche of its young billionaire anti-hero.
Robert Pattinson, pre-The Lighthouse, post-Twilight, delivers a coolly mannered performance as Eric Packer, a tech-era phantom drifting through Manhattan in a stretch limo sealed off from the real world, hunting for a haircut as the city outside spirals into chaos.
Cronenberg’s screenplay cleaves closely to DeLillo’s cerebral dialogue, resulting in a film of eerie stasis, dislocated affect, and prophetic dread. Shot almost entirely within the confines of the limousine, Cosmopolis plays like a fever dream of late capitalism—clinical, surreal, and haunted by obsolescence. With Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, and Samantha Morton.