Silk
by Fran?ois Girard
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Actor: K?ji Yakusho, Keira Knightley, Michael Pitt, Sei Ashina, Tony VogelDirector: Fran?ois Girard
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Alain Dostie
Editor: Pia Di Ciaula
Producer: Jonathan Debin
Producer: Cam Galano
Producer: Akira Ishii
Producer: Yasushi Shiina
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Latin (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Silk
Movie Review: A Story of Obsession
Summary: 4 Stars
I read the novel `Silk' by Alessandro Baricco and loved it. Therefore, I was rather wary of seeing the adaptation. But when I saw the film, I was not disappointed; the visual imagery is beautiful and the Japanese symbolism was well-related.
The location of the story is France in 1862. Herve (Michael Pitt) is convinced by Baldabiou (Alfred Molina) to travel in search of silkworm eggs in order to save the silk-making business. Herve travels to Africa and Japan. During his trip to Japan, he falls in love with a Japanese concubine. When he returns home to France, he cannot forget the Japanese beauty and continues to obsessively long for her.
The untranslated Japanese conversations allows the audience to relate to the main character, as he too does not understand the language. Keira Knightly made a wonderful `H?l?ne' but I wasn't convinced by Michael Pitt as the main character `Herv? Joncour'; the obsessive inner turmoil wasn't portrayed well on screen. Overall, however, I think the film is well-worth seeing.
Summary of Silk
Set in the 19th century, when Japan was closed to the West, Silk offers an unusual love story revolving around Herve (Michael Pitt), wife Helene (Keira Knightley) and the young unnamed beauty to whom he has never shared a conversation (played by Sei Ashina). With the small fortune he has made from smuggling silkworm eggs from Japan, Herve purchases a grand home in France with a nice parcel of land that is suitable for Helene's dream garden. But when the silkworms die, Herve is commissioned to return to Japan to buy more eggs so the townspeople can resume their lucrative silk-manufacturing business. There, Herve once again sees the Japanese baron's concubine who stares at him with longing but remains silent. While he is soaking in a bath, she hands him a note written in Japanese that he later learns reads, "Come back or I will die." Filled with good intentions, Silk doesn't carry enough dramatic weight to garner much viewer interest. That Pitt is American, Knightley is British, and neither attempts a French accent is forgivable. But there is little chemistry shared by any of the leads, who are undeniably gorgeous but in an impassionate and cold way. Pitt's mournful delivery and the clunky dialogue don't help matters much. Staring at their lush garden full of flowers in bloom, Helene says, "You said this is where we'd grow old. Are we old?" Near the end of the film, Herve receives another letter written in Japanese that talks at length about love, faith, and the need to go on. The sender of the letter may surprise some viewers, but the ending is more implausible than a revelation. Based on the novel of the same name by Alessandro Baricco, Silk essentially is little more than a movie of the week disguised as an arthouse film. --Jae-Ha KimBased on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco Silk is a visually stunning epic spanning two continents. Herv? Joncour's (Michael Pitt) devotion to his beautiful bride (Keira Knightley) is tested by increasingly dangerous trade missions in search of silkworms for his towns survival. From his journeys to Japan Herv? brings great wealth for his village but with each return to the Far East he becomes torn by the temptation of a local warlords sensuous concubine and his love for H?l?ne.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE UPC: 794043113079 Manufacturer No: 1000036755
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