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
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 2/5 |
A flat story, lean characters and a miscast lead make this a poor facsimile of period epics like Farewell My Concubine. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Tremulous eroticism a-go-go, but it's all completely lifeless. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Dralon is more like it. Full Review |
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2/5 |
THE new Keira Knightley film is a visual delight. Unfortunately, the dialogue is far from delightful. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Crashing bore of a movie. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Gorgeous to look at but ultimately disappointing, Silk is let down by stilted direction, an extremely dull script and a badly miscast Michael Pitt. Full Review |
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2/4 |
It is worse than a straightforward bad film, it is a middling, stagnant film that could have been extraordinary. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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2/5 |
Dull period drama goes for sensuality over story. Full Review |
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The movie is at its best as a collage of environments representing states of mind. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
It is interesting and not riveting, lovely and not luxurious, good and not great. Some may even find it boring. It certainly is repetitive. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast. Full Review |
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C+ |
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. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Silk isn't just bad. It's utterly mad. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Silk
September 11, 2007:
Silk preview & trailer 
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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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