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List Price: $27.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $7.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2007 DVD Release : 26 February, 2008 |
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Silk description 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 Kim |
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| I have seen a play production of "Silk" in Chicago's Goodman Theatre last year. It was wonderfully done and it was only natural to check out the film based on the same bestselling story. This is sophisticated love story of a young man who leaves his bride in France, while he is on the quest to find healthy silk worms in remote Japan. It is 1800s and silk worms are still sold in secret. Trip to retrieve them is full of dangers. One has to fight greed, tribal wars, hostile climate and unexpected infatuation with a young concubine of the local warlord. The exotic people, culture and nature are perfect setting for two strangers from different continets and no language in common to fall for each other. Our young adventurer Herve is smitten by a quiet beauty of the concubine and her exquisite manners during tea ceremony and her other duties she is expected to perform. While Herve is loyal to his beautiful wife Helene, his desire for the concubine is making him miserable. What he cannot have is what he wants and unfulfilled desire is tearing him apart. I must say that the slowness of story is more suited for the theatre than for the film, but the emotioanl charge of the story itself is just as equally powerful. I have enjoyed this film and would recommend it with an understanding that this film may not be to everyone's taste. One must pay close attention to the words as it is thru words, not action, that one understands the true relationship between Herve and Helene. | |
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