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...
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09/16/07
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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Reviews for Silk
It’s a perfect example of how awful direction and performances can ruin an adequate screenplay.
09/15/07
Top CriticLimp satire.
09/14/07
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.
09/14/07
Top CriticIt is a gorgeous film to look at, but it has little to recommend it beyond pretty pictures.
09/14/07
It's dull, opaque and stunningly unengaging.
09/14/07
Faithful to the book but much less stylish, it succeeds only in demonstrating that Michael Pitt can cause anyone's eyelids to droop when he's handed the leading role.
09/14/07
Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws.
09/14/07
The main problem is the casting, with Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley evidently competing to see who can be more attractive and vacuous.
09/14/07
As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly.
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
[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.
09/14/07
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 CriticSilk is a languid, too languid, story of romantic regrets, mostly ours, because romance is expected to carry the film without explaining it.
09/14/07
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.
09/14/07
This thin silk doesn’t hold together for long.
09/14/07
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
A film that manages to remove just about everything that makes soap operas entertaining.
09/14/07
Few things are as boring as a piece of art porn that pays penance for its titillating scenes with twice as many dull ones.
09/14/07
Girard dampens it, choosing to frame pretty pictures and frost them with a constant, twittering score.
09/13/07
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