4.0
out of 100
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Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
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Barthes takes her notion and runs with it, and Giamatti and Strathairn follow fearlessly.
The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.
In this attractive, smart-enough, finally un-brave movie Ms. Barthes peeks at the dark comedy of the soul only to beat a quick, pre-emptive retreat.
Somewhere between the rabbit-hole absurdist comedy of Charlie Kaufman and a navel-gazing Woody Allen film is the somberly humorous indie Cold Souls.
An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others' bodies.
Giamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.
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News flash: actors happily sell their souls
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