2009 · comedy · drama · sci-fi
Cold Souls
Directed by Sophie Barthes1h 41m2009
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
Our read: Cold Souls (2009) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · drama · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- inventive
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