“Cold Souls”

We all remember actor Paul Giamatti. His latest movie Cold Souls has just been released in the U.S.. Here’s the premise per IMDB:

Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of “Uncle Vanya.” Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. Giamatti enlists their service — only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. His intention is to reinstate it once he survives the performance but complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking “mule” borrows Giamatti’s stored soul for an ambitious, but unfortunately talentless, Russian soap-opera actress.

Here is Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report” interviewing the film’s writer-director Sophie Barthes and cinematographer Andrij Parekh:

As part of the marketing drive, they created this website, which purports to be the home page of the company “The Soul Storage.” With taglines “Is your soul weighing you down? Store it!” and “The Soul Storage Company: Unburdening Made Easy.”

Despite those marketing efforts and what sounds like an interesting premise, the movie has not set the box office on fire, only grossing $327K thus far in a little over 2 weeks at 50 theaters.

Here’s an upbeat movie review from Salon.com critic Stephanie Zacharek.

And the movie’s website.

And the trailer:

Anybody seen the movie? Reactions? And do you believe people have souls?

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