COLD SOULSopens September 25th
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At A Glance: Paul Giamatti stars as himself, an actor struggling with his work, who then decides to relieve his professional anxiety by having his soul extracted. Surrealist and existential hijincks ensue.
"A delicious fable...flat-out funny." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Peppered with ingenious twists of imagination, Cold Souls walks a tightrope between intellectual slapstick and edgy social commentary." - Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Is your soul weighing you down? Paul Giamatti has found a solution! In the surreal comedy Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named… Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he’s been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of "soul-trafficking." Giamatti’s journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress. Balancing a tightrope between deadpan humor & pathos, and reality & fantasy, Cold Souls is a true soul searching comedy.
Writer/Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Paul Giamatti, David Starthairn, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun, Lauren Ambrose
Rated PG-13 for nudity and brief strong language/2009/1:41/comedy