Silk (2007)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Sep 14, 2007
Running Time: 83 mins.
Country Of Origin: Philippines
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Meandering and overwrought, the only thing that's efficient about Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's romantic period novel Silk is its title.

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In 1860s France, charismatic silk entrepreneur Baldabiou (Alfred Molina) enlists would-be military man Herve Joncour (Michael Pitt) to travel to the far reaches of the world to acquire unblemished silkworm eggs, since the European crop has been ravaged by disease. Reluctantly parting from his schoolteacher wife Helene (Keira… Continued