Cold Souls

Dmitri tells the actress not to worry that Paul's soul looks like and is the size of a chickpea, telling her that Al Pacino won three Oscars.

Al Pacino has actually only won one Oscar (Best Actor in 1992, Scent of a Woman).

Sometime when life is feeling a bit mundane and a bit slow, all we need is a good old existential comedy to liven things up a bit. Am I right?

Paul Giamatti (played by Paul Giamatti) decides to extract and store his soul, in order to ease the struggling with his latest project, a Chekov play. Because after all, all of life, and especially acting, goes so much easier without a soul, right?

Paul Giamatti as the 21stCentury Woody Allen simulacrum, turns in a typical performance as himself in this intriguing and inventive story about the metaphysical idea exploring whether we have that thing called a soul and whether or not it has any function in our day-to-day activities as we go through our petty lives.In rehearsal with Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in New York, Paul Giamatti (Paul Giamatti) becomes agitated as he identifies more and more with the character in the play he is performing in.

This is indeed an unfortunate creative misfire but because it features the genius of Emily Watson it deserves nothing less than the highest rating available. Her performance overwhelms the lackluster material and brightens this dark story by the delight of seeing her once again before the cameras.

Cold Souls is a comedy of the absurd with some surrealist and existentialist touches, and a philosophical query on the nature of the soul. The film departs from a quote from Descartes that says that the soul is located in a little place in the brain, a premise that leaves out one of the most interesting aspects of the nature of the soul.

This is depressing, because it is not merely bad, it stomps on some very precious ideas.The fault is in trying to be Woody Allen; even he fails most of the time.

Unique melancholic story. Touching.

The bio-medical industry's hubris is brilliantly satirized in this story that starts as a comedy illustrating the great length an actor will go to succeed in his career. Unfortunately, it slowly evolves over what seems like an ice age into a bleak tragedy showing us how avarice and corruption can ruin lives in pursuit of a quick buck or just a small part in a TV show.

On the surface, "Cold Souls" feels like an unoriginal original. It's being marketed on its offbeat uniqueness, though clearly draws influence from the work of Charlie Kaufman.