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. Also starring David Strathairn, Dana Korzun and Emily Watson.
Ok, it's a comedy, but even the Academy is giving more leeway to comedy this year what with increasing the best picture noms to 10. And I gotta say, the hook is great. Stories about souls are always interesting, and if they're well done dark comedies, hey......“soul-trafficking”, s**t-hot.
Opens Aug 7th (f*****g limited). Storm the box office of your local cinema and demand that they open it there.....or not.