‘Movie review’ – or – ‘How I got a lobotomy for just $17.50!’

So I meditated this morning in a desperate bid to make peace with the film I saw yesterday. Kosmos, a Turkish/Bulgarian “film” was playing as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, and I was fool enough to go and see it.

Kosmos is set in a bleak, white-on-white, snow-covered town somewhere horrible. It’s peopled by wizened men who smoke and cough and women who wear slip-on shoes (in the SNOW!) . Into this dramatic milieu lands a  mysterious stranger who variously squawks and recites religious non-sequiturs into people’s faces. Truely – he SQUAWKS in people’s faces. This squawking can have a medicinal effect; sometimes curing other characters illnessness, but not always – and never so that you’d care. Anyway, the stranger is barely in frame before he’s running dramatically out of it again and huddling somewhere, squawking at someone or crying. Sometimes he stares at statues as well.

What upsets me most is that the trailer makes this film seem like something actually happened, and that what happened is interesting. Not the case.

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