06.19.09 PAUL GIAMATTI MALKOVICH MALKOVICH
This trailer for Cold Souls should help appease those women who always complain about Hollywood casting hot women opposite schlubby guys. Paul Giamatti’s wife is played by Emily Watson, who’s almost his perfect equal in weird-lookingness. I’d like to think if they had a kid it might look like Steve Buscemi, or William H. Macy. Anyway, the film very much has the look and feel of a Charlie Kaufman film (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine), but actually comes from first-timer Sophie Barthes.
After intense rehearsals of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” Paul is emotionally drained. He stumbles upon a “Soul Storage,” a private lab offering New Yorkers something intriguing: a relief from the burden of their souls. Paul decides to get his soul extracted, only to discover that it has the shape and size of a chickpea. After a failed attempt to live and act without his soul, he rents an alleged Russian poet’s soul, which guides him into a strange dreamlike world. Things take an unexpected turn when he decides to get his soul back and meets Nina, a Russian soul mule, who illicitly transports souls from Russia to America. [QuietEarth]
If you’re keeping score at home, that’s: Plot of a Simpson’s Episode + Chekhov = Indie film.
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PAUL GIAMATTI MALKOVICH MALKOVICH
I hope he shoots himself with Chekhov’s gun in the third act.
I don’t even think hipsters can pretend that they understand this.
“Sophie Barthes” sounds like a Russian prostitue asking me to to bathe with her/him/it.
*pretending not to be interested in seeing this*
Emily Watson is about as sexy as getting a foot massage from your grandma.
If ‘Wanted’ taught me anything it’s that you cure existential ennui by becoming a super-assassin based on winning some sort of cosmic lottery that gives you the ability to break the laws of physics and put your dick in Angelina Jolie. That’s what I’m holding out for.
If I was going to rent a soul it sure wouldn’t be a Russian poet’s. I’d go all out and get the James Brown model.
Do I have to watch this movie with neon wayfarers on?
I got cold soles from walking in the snow.
@keyHo
Even with the ability to break the laws of physics before you can put your dick in Angelina you have to pass through the dreaded Aniston Portal.
Vinnie’s got his tightest pair of capri jeans laid out for the debut.
Not to be confused with Old Souls, starring Betty White, Aretha Franklin, and Alan Arkin.
I sold my soul to the devil on an “as is” basis and the red bastard still took me to small claims court. And won.
only to discover that it has the shape and size of a chickpea.
Sounds like Paul might be kinda down about this. Maybe he’ll hummus a sad song.
The corner is still over there, right?
-chickpea- -Maybe he’ll hummus a sad song.-
Will he sit down to hum?
*grasps at straws*
I’d rather watch Chodin’s cold sores heal.
Why didn’t he just get a sports car like every other guy who has a tiny…*ahem*…soul?
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