Silk (2007)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 14, 2007

Running Time: 83 mins.

Country Of Origin: Philippines

starring: Cec Verrell, Bill McLaughlin, Joe Mari Avellana, Frederick Bailey, Nick Nicholson, David Light, Rex Cutter, Ronnie Patterson, Peter Shilton, Henry Strzalkowski

director: Cirio H Santiago

Silk

In the mid 19th century, a silkworm merchant travels from France to Japan to locate silkworm eggs that are uncontaminated by the epidemic that threatens Europe's silk supply. The merchant falls in love with the occidental concubine of a Japanese baron, though he has a loyal and doting wife awaiting his return.

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.

Story

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…