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Silk

2007

François Girard

Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Kôji Yakusho, Alfred Molina ...

4.9

3,781

Romance. Drama Based on the number one international bestselling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is a sweeping romantic drama woven around a material of ethereal fragility: silkworm eggs. When the pébrine epidemic--the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860s--spread overseas, eggs from as far away as Africa and India became infected; thus, the entire European silk trade seemed doomed. To continue his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Silk' is a snooze. Vacuous, arid and terminally dull (...) [It] hasn't a trace of real life or energy to it."	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"If the movie’s twist ending (...) is worthy of Maupassant, it is so long in arriving that the closest thing to a catharsis it offers is a sense of relief that something finally happened."	NEU
United States	Maitland McDonagh Time Out	"Molina, Knightley and Yakusho do their best to inject life into the proceedings, but they’re fighting a losing battle (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Chris Wisniewski IndieWire	"[It] is mostly a failure–dull, plodding, and uninvolving. Thankfully, there is admirable craftsmanship here"	NEU

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