Cold Souls

Cold Souls: Existential Science-Fiction by PAUL CONSTANT If you're only reading the synopsis, it's easy to see why so many lazy critics have compared Cold Souls to Being John Malkovich: Paul Giamatti stars as an actor named Paul Giamatti, whose soul... Full review

If you're familiar with my movie reviews, you know I'm a tremendous admirer of Paul Giamatti - the man can do no wrong in my estimation; I think he's one of the finest actors of our generation and certainly one of... Full review

The high-concept premise of French writer-director Sophie Barthes's first feature, which is pleasing "second-tier Charlie Kaufman stuff" (Peter Rainer), is that the soul is not only a physical organ, but can be switched, by entering a chamber as for an MRI,... Full review

Cold Souls By Edward Havens The easiest, and laziest, way to describe the new movie "Cold Souls" is to compare it to "Being John Malkovich." Yes, both feature a well-respected film actor playing a character named and slightly modeled after them,... Full review

Often, attempts at satire or surrealism fall flat. The jokes are silly, or the situations not credible. But when they do work, they provide those unique gems of an experience that are hard to forget Such is the case for Cold... Full review

I read that director Sophie Barthes goes mad if she' s asked about the similarities between "Could Souls" and Kaufmann's "Synecdoche, New York". I see nothing mad about it. Both films are very similar in their "philosophical" approach and sometimes even... Full review

Just saw this at the Sydney Film Festival. From what I've already read, director Sophie Barthes was inspired to write this by a dream. She is also reportedly tired of comparisons to Kaufman's films. What does she expect? If you crossed... Full review

I saw this film today as part of FSLC and MoMA's New Directors / New Films Festival. The screening was followed by a Q&A with writer/director Sophie Barthes, who openly admitted to being annoyed by comparisons between her film and Charlie... Full review

Cold Souls is a metaphysical farce....Still, the film is most successful when Giamatti exploits his mastery playing the saddest sack in a belligerent world.....Cold Souls dances between vague existential satire and situation comedy without nailing the emotions of longing and loss.... ... Full Review

Cold Souls finally suffers from the comparisons it so clearly invites..... ... Full Review

make for delicious high comedy.....Giamatti strikes sparks both with the always lucid Emily Watson....Giamatti is perfect at the center of "Cold Souls," the kind of sardonic lark that triggers more silent laughter than belly laughs.....his smart, beleaguered wife, and with the subtly empathetic Dina Korzun, as the mule..... ... Full Review

He can't differentiate between his real-life pain and the suffering of a Russian character he's playing onstage.....a fun one to explore, yet only a temporarily compelling conflict for a feature-length film..... ... Full Review

Cold Souls" is edgy seriocomedy.... ... Full Review

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Paul Giamatti has said that he does not have the same type of charisma as Brad Pitt. The Cold Souls star told The Guardian that he is happy to be different to the Hollywood superstar. ... Full Article

Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, currently rehearsing the lead role in Uncle Vanya for a new stage production and finding that his intense identification with the protagonist of this Russian masterpiece is causing him to be depressed. ... Full Article

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The soul: albatross or asset? That's the quandary facing Paul Giamatti (played by Paul Giamatti -- who else?) in the futuristic seriocomedy "Cold Souls." Prickly, grumpy, prone to sulk over life's trivialities, Paul has a whole world of passions battling... ... Full Article