Silk
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- Synopsis
- 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....
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- Starring
- Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani
- Director(s)
- François Girard
- Distributor(s)
- Picturehouse
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 108 min.
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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites
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.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kevin CrustAdd Critic to Favorites
Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming.Read the full review
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