Cold Souls

(2009)

★ 6 IMDb · 188 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Year: 2009

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: United States of America, France

Director: Sophie Barthes

Cast: Пол Джаматти, Эмили Уотсон, Дина Корзун, Дэвид Стрэтэйрн, Кэтрин Уинник, Lauren Ambrose, Майкл Стулбарг, Майкл Такер, Armand Schultz, Ted Koch

Plot

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.

Civilization and its discontents. Paul, an actor preparing for "Uncle Vanya" on Broadway, is mired in ennui. His agent tells him about an office where he can put his soul in storage. He does so then discovers that being soulless helps neither his acting nor his marriage; he returns to the office and rents, for two weeks, the soul of a Russian poet. His acting improves, but his wife finds him different, he sees bits of the borrowed soul's life, and he's now deep in sorrow. He wants his own soul back, but there are complications: it's in St. Petersburg. With the help of Nina, a Russian who transports souls to the U.S., he determines to get it back. Who has he become?