ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Cold Souls Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Sophie Barthes, Country: USA/Russia, Release: 2008, Runtime: 101 "Flat-out funny" -New York Times In the filmlinc blog, Nick Feitel writes that "[Paul Giamatti] is so much a schlub, a wonk, a beardo, a sufferer that it is endlessly fascinating just to get caught up looking in his face, as the film does in many expressive shots, as we search his eyes for the remnant of a soul." Read the full review>> In Sophie Barthes’s trippy, existential comedy thriller Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays a version of himself: an actor in crisis, wracked with anxiety during rehearsals for a highly anticipated production of “Uncle Vanya.” Enter Dr. Flintstein (a delightfully nutty David Strathairn), whose high-tech company guarantees to alleviate psychic pain through a simple new procedure. All Paul has to do is have his soul extracted and deep-frozen for later retrieval, and the show can go on! But life as an empty vessel is not all it’s cracked up to be, especially when Paul discovers a mysterious, soul-trafficking Russian agent (the alluring Dina Korzun) has transported his famous soul to St. Petersburg to be used by her boss’s wife, a no-talent soap opera actress. Writer/director Barthes invents a uniquely absurd and melancholy universe for the great Giamatti to travel through on this metaphysical quest. A Samuel Goldwyn release.

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