Paul Giamatti Does More With Less in ‘Cold Souls’

Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 21, 2009 - 1:28am.

CHICAGO – How is the best way to discover the elusiveness of the soul? For Paul Giamatti, playing himself, the key is to store the legendary organ into the deep freeze, in his new absurdist comedy, “Cold Souls.”

HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 4.0/5.0
Rating: 4.0/5.0

In what has to be one of the great challenges of naturalistic acting, Giamatti plays a character named Paul Giamatti, frantically trying to channel the depths of his new stage role as Anton Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya.”

Perplexed by the evasive character of the melancholy physician, Giamatti seeks a way to plumb a new sensibility out of a performance he can’t quite grasp. The chance encounter with an ad in a magazine discovers a clinic that can actually remove a person’s soul.

’Cold Souls’ has a limited release on August 21, 2009, and features Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, David Strathairn, Dina Korzun and Lauren Ambrose, and is written/directed by Sophie Barthes.

StarContinue reading for Patrick McDonald’s full “Cold Souls” review.

Paul Giamatti Goes Through the Extraction Process in ‘Cold Souls’
Paul Giamatti Goes Through the Extraction Process in ‘Cold Souls’
Photo credit: Adam Bell for Samuel Goldwyn Films

StarContinue reading for Patrick McDonald’s full “Cold Souls” review.

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