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Exclusive: François Girard’s Silk Poster One Sheet

Published on August 8, 2007

Judging by the title translation – many of you folks will see that this is not the official Picturehouse Films' U.S one sheet, but you might learn that this production benefited from lots of co-production money from different parts of the world including Canada.

Canadian distributor Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm have provided us with the poster image – clearly they are prepping up for the Toronto Film Festival world premiere of Silk. The highly anticipated François Girard picture will get much media coverage and IONCINEMA.com will be in the thick of things at this year's TIFF.

Young thesps Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt will be featured with vets
Alfred Molina and Babel's Koji Yakusho. Based on the Alessandro Baricco's novel, this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful European woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).