Neurotic: Paul Giametti (far right) in Cold Souls
10 April 2012
Paul Giametti plays a neurotic actor trying to get through rehearsals for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in director Sophie Barthes’s debut.
He just can’t seem to get the tone right.
Then he sees an ad in the New York Times that invites people to shed their souls and keep them in storage.
After a soul transplant, he thinks, he will be able to play Vanya.
The subject is not unlike something either Andre Breton or even Luis Buñuel would cook up.
But, as well as Giametti plays, the film peters out in a way that Buñuel would never have allowed.
Cold Souls
Cert: 12A
