Keira Knightley
Helene Joncour
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A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes.
Silk is a melodramatic period film that lacks passion and intrigue. The story follows a French silk merchant who travels to Japan and becomes enchanting by a mysterious woman, then proceeds to ...
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Sep 13, 2007 · "Silk" is a languid, too languid, story of romantic regrets, mostly ours, because romance is expected to carry the film without explaining it. It is told as a mournful flashback, narrated by a man who has been in love with two women, or maybe it was one all the time. He is a young Frenchman as his story begins circa 1860, who falls in love with a local girl, marries her and then is sent to ...
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Sep 14, 2007 · François Girard. Director, Screenplay. Alessandro Baricco. Novel. Michael Golding. Screenplay. 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.
Hervé Joncour (Michael Pitt) is a young Frenchman who marries Hélène (Keira Knightley) in 1862. Baldabiou (Alfred Molina) refurbishes the silk mills but needs new silkworms. Silkworms are dying all over the world, and he hires Hervé to go to Africa to retrieve the eggs.
