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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:2
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Average Rating:4.2/10
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
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.
Top CriticThough elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
Top CriticSilk isn't just bad. It's utterly mad.
Top CriticIt’s a perfect example of how awful direction and performances can ruin an adequate screenplay.
Top CriticLimp satire.
Top Critic[Director] Girard confuses pretty scenery doused in ponderous music with epic visual poetry. Impenetrable musings intended to evoke ineffable romantic longing leave you scratching your head as you wait, ever more impatiently, for something to happen.
Top CriticThe main problem is the casting, with Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley evidently competing to see who can be more attractive and vacuous.
Top CriticAs sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly.
Top Critic[Alfred] Molina, as Baldabiou, is the only cast member who transcends the material -- as he always does -- and his scenes are considerably more invigorated than the rest of the film.
Top CriticAlthough 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.
Top CriticSilk is a languid, too languid, story of romantic regrets, mostly ours, because romance is expected to carry the film without explaining it.
Top CriticFrancois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel is a visually arresting period piece, set in the 1860s, that addresses memory and loss.
Top CriticIf there were an award for the gloomiest movie of the year, Silk would win hands down.
Top CriticThe 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).
Top CriticWhat 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
Top CriticVacuous, arid and terminally dull.
Top CriticFew movies ever have gone to such a length to tell so slight -- and, worse, unengaging -- a story.
Top Critic
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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