THE new Keira Knightley film is a visual delight. Unfortunately, the dialogue is far from delightful.
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11/09/07
Silk (2007)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:4
Rotten:51
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.
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,... [More]
Starring: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina
Director: Francois Gerard
Reviews for Silk
A flat story, lean characters and a miscast lead make this a poor facsimile of period epics like Farewell My Concubine.
11/23/07
Top CriticTremulous eroticism a-go-go, but it's all completely lifeless.
11/09/07
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 CriticSluggish 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
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 CriticDralon is more like it.
11/09/07
Top CriticCrashing bore of a movie.
11/09/07
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09/29/07
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
If you see Silk, be happy just to see it, in all its gorgeousness. That alone makes it worth your own trek to the theater.
09/14/07
Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel is a visually arresting period piece, set in the 1860s, that addresses memory and loss.
09/14/07
As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly.
09/14/07
a singularly uninvolving bit of piffle crafted as though those who made it were afraid of waking someone
09/12/07
The movie looks gorgeous ... but the story never really builds momentum; you keep waiting for the 'real' action to start, but it never does.
09/14/07
The movie is at its best as a collage of environments representing states of mind.
10/17/07
Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws.
09/14/07
It is worse than a straightforward bad film, it is a middling, stagnant film that could have been extraordinary.
02/28/08
Although the period-piece film has all the trappings, from beautiful people to an obligatory sense of tragedy, it never follows through. In fact, its love story needs a shove -- it just lies there.
09/14/07
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September 11, 2007:
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August 23, 2007:
It's hard to imagine Brit beauty Knightley playing the long-suffering wife of an adulterous spouse who'd look at another woman - even if he's got a thing for a seductive geisha in faraway Japan, who happens to be the personal property of a powerful baron.
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August 22, 2007:
Trailer & Poster review
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