Oct 15 Cold Souls
A surrealistic comedy starring Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, and David Straithaim. Giamatti plays a stage actor (named Paul Giamatti) who is struggling with preparations for his role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Paul reads a New Yorker story about a high-tech company that promises to alleviate suffering by extracting, freezing, and storing people’s souls. It seems just the ticket for him, until his chickpea-sized frozen soul falls into the hands of international soul-traffickers, who hand it off to an ambitious but talentless Russian soap-opera actress.
This quaintly goofy premise makes for pointedly neurotic Sleeper-ish fun, not to mention nifty digs at our culture of self-reinvention. – Los Angeles Times
An ambitious, elegantly shot, tonally cool first feature written and directed by Sophie Barthes. – New York Times
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