The Dryden will screen Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski, France / Portugal 2015, 97 min., DCP, French w/subtitles) as part of the Andrzej Żuławski series.

Żuławski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel into an ominous and manic exploration of desire. Witold, who has just failed the bar, and his companion Fuchs, who has recently quit his fashion job, are staying at a guesthouse run by the intermittently paralytic Madame Woytis. Witold's reality mutates into a whirlwind of tension, histrionics, foreboding omens, and surrealistic logic as he becomes obsessed with Madame Woytis's daughter Lena, newly married to Lucien.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-May-22]