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mixed
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75
As sensuous as its title, Silk is an exquisitely felt love story that unfolds as delicately as a blooming flower. And as slowly.
58
Sensual but profoundly silly, Silk is ultimately little more than softcore porn with arthouse trappings, a moony, dopily romantic "Red Shoe Diaries" variation for the NPR set.
50
Failing to make a lick of rational sense, Silk grasps at poetic straws.
50
Though the film aspires to the epic with pretensions of deeper philosophical meaning, it ultimately settles for being the "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" of historical romances.
50
Cinematographer Alain Dostie's stunning, painterly cinematography is the best -- and perhaps only -- reason to endure this stunted epic.
50
Everything is brought together at the end in a flash of revelation that is spectacularly underwhelming.
50
Beautiful but flimsy film.
50
A visually arresting period piece.
50
Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
42
Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
