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Un film di Sophie Barthes.
Con Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, David Strathairn, Katheryn Winnick.
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Drammatico,
- USA 2009.
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A comedy that has lots of souls
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
Somewhere between the rabbit-hole absurdist comedy of Charlie Kaufman and a navel-gazing Woody Allen film is the somberly humorous indie "Cold Souls" from writer-director Sophie Barthes. Inspired by Jungian writings, moody sci-fi and today's meta-approach to celebrity, Barthes cast bug-eyed, heroically slumped actor Paul Giamatti as himself, a noted thespian stymied by an inner turmoil that's derailing his rehearsals for "Uncle Vanya," which leads him to a company whose founder (David Strathairn) claims to be able to unburden people by extracting the soul, and/or implanting someone else's. [...]
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