Silk

This was one of the most boring movies I have ever watched. I kept waiting for it to pick up. In the end when Helen dies I wasn't even moved because my interest was already lost. I wouldn't recomend watching this... Full review

I LIKE ROMANCE FILM VERY MUCH BUT THIS FILM HAVE A MEDIOCRE ROMANCE STORY.THIS FILM SHOW LOVE BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN ON AMRIKA AND JAPAN I THINK THIS NOT A GOOD LOVELY FILM.HOWEVER I LIKE THIS DRAMA\ROMANCE FILM.... Full review

This airless soap is much like the fake food displays you see in model homes: looks great, hard to swallow. The pace is that of a funeral cadence, the acting, bloodless. My favorite unintentionally hilarious line is, "Ludovic, death is strange."... Full review

I had high hopes for this film, great actors, good book, seemingly engaging storyline. But something went awry when i was watching it - i honestly did not care for any of the characters. The seemingly deep relationship between the main... Full review

I went to see this move last week with no idea about the story. I live in Japan for almost 8 years. The story is so week seems like making it up. After the success of last sumrai the thought of... Full review

This is just another fantasy of white men "the mysterious delicate flower oriental woman" and the white European man she falls in love with,lol are you kidding me? Does anybody know the history of movies? This movie was done MANY TIMES... Full review

A very good movie.A little slow but entertaining. The visuals are very good and the storyline is a good one but the acting wasn't that good, Alfred Molina was the one who acted the best.... Full review

It sounded like such a beautiful tale, a love triangle or whatever with a little travel adventure to exotic locations... It didn't really show the beauty of Japan.. It seemed almost like a contrived tale. I am sure the book is... Full review

Not what I expected. I assumed there would be some moral to the story and I would some how learn something but nothing happened. This is another reason why some movies should just be released to video and bypass the theater... Full review

Judged by modern standards of action adventure, there seems as if not much is going on, but this film is deceptively simple. To truly appreciate the beauty of Silk, it requires the viewer to look deeply into everything, adopting a different sensibility, and play the philosopher as the events unfold. ... Full Review

Silk is a beautiful movie.....It is as inhuman a film as I've ever seen.....It could have been some grand tale of futile passion, of longing and regret, of love forever lost, or unfound, of betrayal and despair..... ... Full Review

Silk is a beautiful movie. Directed with assured pretension by Francois Girard (who's made a career out of hollowly beautiful films), Silk is so ephemeral you become convinced that it must be deliberately so, that everyone involved realized they had an insufferable stinker on their hands and worked their damnedest to make sure the film was as forgettable as possible (the paltry box-office, usually something I don't care about, bears me out. ... Full Review

As the saga wears on, Girard's pointed visual details, laboriously repeated a clutch of violets, icicles dripping off twigs, mist rising off a hot spring become self-conscious, as does the monotonous piano score. 'Silk': Story lost in lush imagery ... Full Review

'Silk' a smooth, beautiful bore With minimalist actor Michael Pitt as the male star and often sublime Keira Knightley as his devoted wife, you knew Silk would play subtle and never over-reach for cloying sentimentality that damages too many movies. ... Full Review

Emotion and action are two crucial filmic elements, and both seem to have been overlooked in this period piece about love, longing and the "other woman" from Quebecois director Francois Girard. ... Full Article

Critical darling "Continental" won big at the Jutra Awards on Sunday in Quebec. The film garnered Stéphane Lafleur the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. ... Full Article

Dralon is more like it. Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt find, respectively, their most catatonic form in this unendurable romantic period drama, based on a doughy bestseller. ... Full Article

It looks expensive, but it feels like cheap man-made fibres. Based on the bestseller by Alessandro Baricco, it weaves a most inauthentic tale of a soldier-turned-trader (Michael Pitt) to-ing and fro-ing between France and Japan, where he buys silkworm eggs... ... Full Article

"And so I headed off to the end of the world," narrates Herve Joncour (Michael Pitt), the globe-trotting hero of period melodrama Silk. A French adventurer dispatched to Japan to secure the uncontaminated silkworm eggs needed to safeguard Europe's rag... ... Full Article

September 14, 2007 AS sensuous as its title, "Silk" is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly. Budding star Michael Pitt (no relation to Brad, although he looks and sounds like ... Full Article