A flat story, lean characters and a miscast lead make this a poor facsimile of period epics like Farewell My Concubine.
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11/23/07
Silk (2007)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 53 Fresh: 4 Rotten:49 Average Rating: 3.8/10
Consensus:
Silk contains a simple love triangle story but director Francois Gerard goes to painstaking lengths to turn it into a protracted and wearisome art film.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Theatrical Release: 09-11-2007
Synopsis: With SILK, director François Gerard (THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD, THE RED VIOLIN) brings Alessandro Baricco's bestselling novel to sumptuous life. Michael Pitt stars as Herve Joncour, a Frenchman who lives in a small town that has hit hard times. A local silkworm magnate... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Sei Ashina
Director: Francois Gerard
Screenwriter: Francois Girard, Michael Golding
Producer: Niv Fichman, Nadine Luque, Domenico Procacci, Sonoko Sakai
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Screenwriter: Francois Girard, Michael Golding
Producer: Niv Fichman, Nadine Luque, Domenico Procacci, Sonoko Sakai
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Reviews
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THE new Keira Knightley film is a visual delight. Unfortunately, the dialogue is far from delightful.
11/09/07
Top Critic
A problematic period movie, Silk is anything but finely spun. Unaided by lacklusture performances from the leads, director Francois Girard seems more interested in crafting a beautiful travelogue than he does a moving melodrama.
11/09/07
Top Critic
Francois Girard's film proves a cross-cultural yawn, as if taking its cue from Pitt's blank-faced blandness and Keira Knightley's anaemic support.
11/09/07
Top Critic
Sluggish storytelling enlivens neither Pitt’s infatuation with a local concubine nor the stubbornly feudal society it’s set against. Worst of all, though, you just never give a toss.
11/09/07
Gorgeous to look at but ultimately disappointing, Silk is let down by stilted direction, an extremely dull script and a badly miscast Michael Pitt.
11/08/07
It is worse than a straightforward bad film, it is a middling, stagnant film that could have been extraordinary.
02/28/08
i sta narkotika tha se riksei, i stin katatonia, an kaneis to lathos na tin pareis sta sobara os otidipote allo para eykairia eksaskisis ton kanibalistikon soy enstikton
01/14/08
The movie is at its best as a collage of environments representing states of mind.
10/17/07
It is interesting and not riveting, lovely and not luxurious, good and not great. Some may even find it boring. It certainly is repetitive.
09/28/07
François Girard's Silk is not merely painterly. It might as well be a painting, for all that it eschews storytelling, forcing the viewer to scan the lush imagery in search of clues to what, if anything, might be going on.
09/28/07
Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
09/28/07
Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic Red Shoe Diaries variation for the NPR set.
09/22/07
While the locations are stunning and the cinematography (by Alain Dostie) frequently pulls off compositions of breathtaking beauty, the flimsy emotional journey left me bored and frustrated -- never a good combination.
09/22/07
The lack of overt instances of exposition consequently ensures that one's enjoyment of the movie is directly related to one's familiarity with Baricco's book...
09/16/07
It’s a perfect example of how awful direction and performances can ruin an adequate screenplay.
09/15/07
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