130951 20260220073416.0 doi 10.1080/25785273.2023.2260240 sideral 136613 ART-2024-136613 eng (orcid)0000-0003-1123-1448 Azcona, María Del Mar Universidad de Zaragoza Brief encounter: Matt Damon in Marseille 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Stillwater 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. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H23-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-123836NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 0.4 2024 0.334 2024 Visual Arts and Performing Arts 2024 Q1 Communication 2024 Q2 1.1 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion (orcid)0000-0002-3087-4556 Deleyto, Celestino Universidad de Zaragoza 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 15, 3 (2024), 253-270 Transnatl. screens Transnational Screens 2578-5273 283662 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130951/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-02-28 1503966 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130951/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-02-28 oai:zaguan.unizar.es:130951 articulos driver 2026-02-19-08:59:58 ARTICLE