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MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and nudity
Starring Michael Pitt, Kôji Yakusho, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Mark Rendall, and Sei Ashina
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 lucrative trade, Baldabiou--a roguish French trader--decides to send young military officer Herve Joncour on a perilous mission to Japan, separating Herve for months on end from Helene, his lovely and devoted schoolteacher wife. Prior to the opening of the Suez Canal, Japan produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years and was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners--quite literally the opposite end of the world. It is here that Herve encounters the powerful and feared local baron, Hara Jubei, with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs. And it is here, in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before, that he becomes entranced by the baron's concubine, a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty. Without speaking one another's language, they share a doomed, obsessive love. A film of painterly beauty and ravishing romance, Silk is a historically rapturous epic romance of east meets west. (Picturehouse)
| GENRE(S): | Drama | Romance |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Michael Golding
François Girard Alessandro Baricco (novel) |
| DIRECTED BY: | François Girard |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 26, 2008 Theatrical: September 14, 2007 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Canada / France / Italy / UK / Japan |
| LANGUAGE(S): | English / Japanese |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
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John N. gave it a10:
Although the man has a beautiful and loving wife awaiting his return, he becomes obsessed with the lovely young concubine of a powerful Japanese feudal baron. His choice, love or desire. However, in real life neither of these beauties would give the mayor's son the time of day because he's a lethargic, vacuous, sleepwalking, unkempt zombie. Fortunately, the gorgeous wife, concubine, prostitute and cinematography overcome this egregious miscasting and make the film a wise masterpiece.
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