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With: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Koji Yakusho, Mark Rendall, Sei Ashina, Leslie Csuth, Marc Forini
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Written by: François Girard
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Directed by: François Girard
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MPAA Rating: R for sexuality and nudity
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Running Time: 116
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Date: 09/11/2007
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Worm Limits
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Michael Pitt is badly miscast and quite awful in the role of 19th century silk trader Herve Joncour; he doesn't even sound credible pronouncing his character's name. Keira Knightley plays his wife who waits while he takes three increasingly dangerous trips to Japan for silkworm eggs. Herve is drawn to a beautiful girl there, but nothing happens. A pair of letters written in Japanese -- of all things -- is supposed to ignite the climax, but the otherwise talented French-Canadian director Fran�ois Girard (The Red Violin) dampens it, choosing instead to frame pretty pictures and frost them with a constant, twittering score. Skilled actors Alfred Molina and Koji Yakusho are trapped in the boredom. Girard and Michael Golding adapted Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
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