Cold Souls [M]

Director: Sophie Barthes

Starring: Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn

Comedy-drama — In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes Cold Souls, a surreal comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities.

Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, agonising over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya. Paralysed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high–tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. (PN)

“Somewhere between the rabbit–hole absurdist comedy of Charlie Kaufman and a navel–gazing Woody Allen film is the somberly humorous Indie Cold Souls” Robert Abele — LA Times

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