Cold Souls: DVD Review
Cold Souls
Released by
Madman
Rating: M
Paul Giamatti (complete with sad sack eyes and jowly cheeks) plays Paul
Giamatti, a fictionalized version of the actor, who's struggling with his part
in Uncle Vanya. Clearly Chekhov's play is resting heavy on him - and one day, he
sees an ad for a Soul Storage place which piques his curiosity.
So, with the ad's slogan "Is your soul weighing you
down?" he heads to see if he can find some relief.
What he actually finds is a surgery which can remove souls and hold
them in special units (or if they want to avoid tax, can be shipped to New
Jersey) to give their owners a new lease of life.
Giamatti undergoes the treatment - and things get more complicated
for him when a soul trafficking group from Russia ends up stealing his soul to
satiate a Mafioso style don's girlfriend. Giamatti ends up facing the
possibility of heading to St Petersburg or remaining soulless for the rest of
his life.
What can you say about Cold Souls? It's
slightly odd, slightly heart warming and entirely different. Once again,
Giamatti shows why he's a talented actor and wins over the audience with this
existential type role which could have backfired.
It's an interesting premise which is well executed (aside from
feeling a little long at the end) but Cold Souls offers up some interesting
ethical and soulful dilemmas.
Rating: 6/10
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