Inscrutable and Insufferable
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09/13/07
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
[B]eautiful-looking but torturously dull...
09/13/07
If there were an award for the gloomiest movie of the year, Silk would win hands down.
09/13/07
The stilted dialogue makes all of the actors sound as if they're being dubbed into English, badly, especially the English-speaking ones (Alfred Molina, looking seriously bored).
09/13/07
What we're told in Silk is that Michael Pitt is a French 19th-century silkworm merchant in love with his wife but obsessed with a mysterious woman he glimpses on business in Japan. What we see is a mopey fellow without the energy to comb his hair
09/13/07
Here's a little game you can play if you get bored during Silk, and you will get bored during Silk: How many actors do you suppose were offered the lead role before the producers settled on Michael Pitt?
09/13/07
Like being slapped in the face by a feather: You're surprised that something so soft can grab your attention but have neither emotional nor physical bruises to show for it.
09/13/07
Beneath the lovely surface it's dramatically threadbare...about as interesting as one of your neighbor's vacation slide shows.
09/13/07
Sumptuously photographed but achingly dull story of a French silk trader who finds unrequited love in 19th century Japan.
09/13/07
a singularly uninvolving bit of piffle crafted as though those who made it were afraid of waking someone
09/12/07
In a film that just happens to be about the topic of fabric, Silk like a mannequin draped in an elegant costume, is all shimmering surface and hollow core.
09/12/07
Vacuous, arid and terminally dull.
09/12/07
Top CriticAs striking and insubstantial as its titular fabric.
09/11/07
Alessandro Baricco's lyrical short novel is tentatively re-imagined as a saccharine love story with minimal depth.
09/11/07
Few movies ever have gone to such a length to tell so slight -- and, worse, unengaging -- a story.
09/11/07
Top CriticWhat's happened to Girard, who made the original 32 Shorts about Glenn Gould, then the mediocre Red Violin, and now a dull, studied art film, a period tale of doomed romance with no chemistry entre Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley or Pitt and other woman
09/08/07
Latest News for Silk
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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