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).
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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:Sep 14, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $990,439
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
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09/29/07
THE new Keira Knightley film is a visual delight. Unfortunately, the dialogue is far from delightful.
11/09/07
a singularly uninvolving bit of piffle crafted as though those who made it were afraid of waking someone
09/12/07
A flat story, lean characters and a miscast lead make this a poor facsimile of period epics like Farewell My Concubine.
11/23/07
Tremulous eroticism a-go-go, but it's all completely lifeless.
11/09/07
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
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
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
Top CriticHere'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
A film that manages to remove just about everything that makes soap operas entertaining.
09/14/07
The lack of overt instances of exposition consequently ensures that one's enjoyment of the movie is directly related to one's familiarity with Baricco's book...
09/16/07
What'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
Beneath the lovely surface it's dramatically threadbare...about as interesting as one of your neighbor's vacation slide shows.
09/13/07
Limp satire.
09/14/07
Top CriticIf 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
It’s a perfect example of how awful direction and performances can ruin an adequate screenplay.
09/15/07
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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:
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