romantic drama directed
by : Francois Gerard featuring
: Michael Pitt - Keira Knightley - Koji Yakusho - Alfred Molina -
Miki Nakatani running
time : 1 hour 49 minutes
Francois Gerard's
adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young
Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate
who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and
this allows the man to live in great comfort with his wife (Keira Knightley).
After a few years, they are unable to conceive a child, a situation that
leads to the man taking on a lover during his subsequent visits to Japan.
