Synopsis
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
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Cast
- Keira KnightleyHélène Joncour
- Michael PittHervé Joncour
- Alfred MolinaBaldabiou
- Koji YakushoHara Jubei
- Sei AshinaThe Girl
- Miki NakataniMadame Blanche
- Kenneth WelshMayor Joncour
- Callum Keith RennieSchuyler
- Mark RendallLudovic Berbek
- Martha BurnsMme. Joncour
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Cinematographer Alain Dostie's stunning, painterly cinematography is the best -- and perhaps only -- reason to endure this stunted epic. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel. - 40
The New York Times
Mr. Pitt is a reasonably photogenic specimen. But this actor, whose typical screen character is a broken, androgynous man-child, is disastrously miscast. - 38
New York Daily News
By the end of Francois Gerard's plodding, uninvolving melodrama, his boredom will have nothing on yours.
