Cosmos

This is a terribly unbalanced but interesting film that has its distinctly bright sides, but also aspects that one would rather turn over quickly. The positive aspects certainly include the performance of the main female protagonist and the motif of a "forgotten" cosmonaut, who connects the story nicely. The negative aspects include frequent bookishness, the unnatural studiedness of dialogues and completely unnecessary overflow of motifs. Less could have been more. In any case, Fandos' Cosmos is a very friendly place, a place that, compared to chaos and alienation, builds quite promising moments of connection and order. It's too bad that the creator is far too flippant and likes to aestheticize everything he says. In this way, his work lacks room for gradation and a finer palette of emotions. He pushes too much and longs too much for spirituality and peculiarity. I quite miss the talent to connect the metaphorical level with the realism of the film image, the disturbing closeness of things and symbols that, for example, Pedro Almodóvar easily achieves. For Fandos, there is a large gap between heaven and earth, and the film does not completely cross this gap. (19/02/2010)