Love knows no borders
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Sei Ashina, Alfred Molina, Koji Yakusho, Mark Rendall |
Director |
François Girard |
Screenplay | François Girard, Michael Golding, from the novel by Alessandro Baricco |
Music | Ryuichi Sakamoto |
Cinematography | Alain Dostie |
Editing | Pia Di Ciaula |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2007 |
Produced by | A consortium of mostly Canadian companies. |
Genre | Romantic |
Language | None |
Nudity | Fairly frequent and in sexual context |
Sex | Fairly frequent and quite strongly implied |
Violence | One scene which is disturbing |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | This is an art circuit type movie. |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Die Burger Ronel Nel Laat veel te wense oor. | 1 | |
Cape Times Kevin Crust Superficial love story, with worms. | 5 | |
The Citizen Natalie Bosman There are many films that fall short when they try to cinematise novels, and Silk is one of them. | 10 | |
BBC Neil Smith For all its exotic detail, though, Francois Girard's film proves a cross-cultural yawn | 5 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Silk is a languid, too languid, story of romantic regrets, mostly ours, because romance is expected to carry the film without explaining it. | 10 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson Sumptuously presented but thin as rayon, this material needed a far more charismatic actor if it hoped to display any vital signs. | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli By any standards, Silk is a bad movie: pretentious, stillborn, devoid of emotion. It’s a perfect example of how awful direction and performances can ruin an adequate screenplay. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 16 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 49 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A protracted and wearisome art film. | 2 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 369 Netizens The scenes are beautiful great location and good acting and a very touching movie | 12 | |
Average .. 34% | 7 |