000130951 001__ 130951 000130951 005__ 20240731103305.0 000130951 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1080/25785273.2023.2260240 000130951 0248_ $$2sideral$$a136613 000130951 037__ $$aART-2023-136613 000130951 041__ $$aeng 000130951 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-1123-1448$$aAzcona, María Del Mar$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000130951 245__ $$aBrief encounter: Matt Damon in Marseille 000130951 260__ $$c2023 000130951 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000130951 5203_ $$aStillwater McCarthy (2021) brings together Matt Damon, a Hollywood star with cosmopolitan credentials, and Marseille, a crucible of civilizations often described as a cosmopolitan city. Damon plays Bill Baker, an Oklahoman redneck who must travel regularly to Marseille to visit his daughter in jail. For Bill, a character from a small, quiet mid-U.S. town, Marseille is all excess and opacity, almost impossible to navigate. Large parts of the film are spoken in French, a language that the protagonist neither speaks nor understands.This article uses a cosmopolitan perspective to explore the consequences of the encounter between the Hollywood star and the European city. As will be argued, the ambivalent cosmopolitanism of both Damon’s star persona and Marseille converge in an irresistible but ultimately impossible way. This article explores the dynamics between these two drives by means of a spatial perspective that sheds some light on the multiplying facets of cosmopolitanism in contemporary cinema, including mainstream cinema, and highlights the fraught interface between cosmopolitanism as a utopian ethical aspiration and political agenda, on the one hand, and an everyday reality, on the other. 000130951 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H23-20R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-123836NB-I00 000130951 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000130951 592__ $$a0.219$$b2023 000130951 593__ $$aVisual Arts and Performing Arts$$c2023$$dQ1 000130951 593__ $$aCommunication$$c2023$$dQ3 000130951 594__ $$a0.6$$b2023 000130951 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000130951 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-3087-4556$$aDeleyto, Celestino$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000130951 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000130951 773__ $$g(2023), 1-18$$pTransnatl. screens$$tTransnational Screens$$x2578-5273 000130951 8564_ $$s283662$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130951/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-02-28 000130951 8564_ $$s1503966$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130951/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-02-28 000130951 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:130951$$particulos$$pdriver 000130951 951__ $$a2024-07-31-09:37:58 000130951 980__ $$aARTICLE