Cold Souls (12A)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sophie Barthes's metaphysical comedy is also a lesson in straight-faced perversity.
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Cold Souls not very possessing
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Film review: The plot of debut writer/director Sophie Barthes' surreal comedy reminds you of The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
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Film review: Cold Souls
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
COLD SOULS (12A) *** DIRECTED BY: SOPHIE BARTHES STARRING: PAUL GIAMATTI, EMILY WATSON
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Film review: Cold Souls
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
COLD SOULS (12A) *** DIRECTED BY: SOPHIE BARTHES STARRING: PAUL GIAMATTI, EMILY WATSON
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At the Cinema | Cold Souls - Paul Giamatti loses his soul in surreal comedy
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A surreal storyline: check. A famous actor playing himself: check. Playful existential comedy Cold Souls certainly ticks some of the same boxes as Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich, yet first-time writer-director Sophie Barthes’s assured feature film debut has a deadpan wit and gentle pathos all [...]
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Film review: Cold Souls
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Ripping off someone else's act in such obsessive detail that it counts as a mixture of creative larceny and stalking, says Peter Bradshaw There is hommage . And there is ripping off someone else's act in such obsessive detail that it counts as a mixture of creative larceny and stalking. Writer-director Sophie Barthes has created a moderately funny film everywhere described as "Kaufmanesque"....
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Cold Souls - Review
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
THE term “Kaufman-esque” can be bounded around a little too easily at times… but it does feel like an appropriate way to describe writer-director Sophie Barthes’ intriguing debut film. Billed as an existential comedy, the film finds Paul Giamatti playing an actor named Paul Giamatti who decides to have his soul extracted in order to get to grips with playing Uncle Vanya … only to suddenly...
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How to make a post-Charlie Kaufman US arthouse movie
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Guidelines: Random notes from pop culture Sophie Barthes's engaging new comedy Cold Souls is the latest of a new breed of films that can be called "Kaufmanesque", with deference to the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman. In Kaufman's work, reality falls prey to meta-textual and metaphysical influences, usually with bittersweet, hilarious results. His shadow falls on Barthes's...
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Film reviews: Cold Souls | Harry Brown | The White Ribbon
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Writer-director Sophie Barthes marks our card with her first film, a smart existential comedy. A New York actor named Paul Giamatti (played by Paul Giamatti, below) is spiritually exhausted preparing for the lead in Uncle Vanya, until he reads ADVERTISEMENTabout a solution: soul extraction. For a fee, David Strathairn sucks out and stores souls, to lighten the burden of angst. But soullessness...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
***Writer-director Sophie Barthes marks our card with her first film, a smart existential comedy. A New York actor named Paul Giamatti (played by Paul Giamatti, below) is spiritually exhausted preparing for the lead in Uncle Vanya, until heADVERTISEMENTreads about a solution: soul extraction. For a fee, David Strathairn sucks out and stores souls, to lighten the burden of angst. But soullessness...
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The One Where We Prove Woody Allen Wrong
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Open Letter to Freida Pinto: Stay Away from Woody Allen! Paul Giamatti Channels Woody Allen in Sophie Barthes’ Cold Souls Open Letter to Woody Allen: We Don’t Like Seeing Old Dudes Romance Young Girls
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Soul searching
Mytton Williams / Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Mytton Williams is sponsoring a film at this year’s Bath Film Festival: Cold Souls is a deliciously wry comedy by Sophie Barthes, starring Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, David Strathairn and Dina Korzun. The story follows an actor (Paul Giamatti) agonizing over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya who decides to put his soul into cold storage, after [...]