It's all about R Patz today, as Cosmopolis takes a bow on the Croisette

9.32am: A few notes of semi-caution.

Wish I could rewatch COSMOPOLIS before writing a word about it.

For now, it's both too much and too little; I'm both impressed and deflated.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) May 25, 2012

COSMOPOLIS strange and stately.

A psychoanalysis flick that's a sequel to both Crash and Dangerous Method.

I was mesmerized.

#cannes2012

— Jonathan Romney (@JonathanRomney) May 25, 2012

9.26am: Such a positive response to tilts the competition interestingly.

Will Nanni Moretti's jury go glam (Cosmopolis), go grim (Amour) or just split the difference and go for downright bananas (Holy Motors)?

9.23am:

Blown away by Cosmopolis at Cannes.

A flick of cool, diamond brilliance.

Perfectly fitted, a tale for the times.

Note to jurors: this one

— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 25, 2012

Enjoyed Cosmopolis; odd and funny

— Damon Wise (@yo_damo) May 25, 2012

Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS talky but terrific, with a steely, sinuous turn from Pattinson.

Chillingly current too.

#cannes

— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 25, 2012

Themes of Cannes 2012: white stretch limos, A-listers pissing, dead dogs, financial crisis, Twilight actors, Matthew McConaughey...

— Charles Gant (@charlesgant) May 25, 2012

Of Pattinson, Xan reckons:

@alexneedham74 Perfect as tragicomic billionaire vampire.

Plus Mathieu Amalric as phantom pie-thrower, Paul Giamatti as the lower 99%

— Xan Brooks (@XanBrooks) May 25, 2012

Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS talky but terrific, with a steely, sinuous turn from Pattinson.

Chillingly current too.

#cannes

— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) May 25, 2012

9.22am: Bonjour! It's a lovely morning in London, but let's hot-tail it to the south of France, where the critics are streaming out of Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel.

And I can see the smiles from here.

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