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Cold Souls (2009)
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn
6.4
75%Runtime101 min
Rating12
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Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
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With its quirky blend of comedy, drama, and science fiction directed by Sophie Barthes, Cold Souls from 2009 offers a unique and introspective exploration of the human condition. Starring acclaimed actor Paul Giamatti, the film's conceptual premise - a company that can extract people's souls - provides a thought-provoking lens through which to examine anxiety, identity, and the nature of the self.
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Cold Souls is a 2009 American science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Sophie Barthes. The film features Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, and David Strathairn. Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to recover his soul.
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