Plot: Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. Read More
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DO NOT bother to see this. Boring, underscripted, acted with no emotion ... or even reason ... by anyone. There are some pretty scenes but with no elements of human feeling.

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