Director: Sophie Barthes
I kinda liked this movie. It begins really well. The plot is smart & gripping from the start. Paul Giamatti stars as himself, struggling with a stage adaptation on Uncle Vanya, when he comes across an article about an organization that extracts souls from people's bodies & stores them, so that they can go about their activites in "peace". Frustrated by mounting performance pressure as rehearsals for the play progress, Paul decides to give the soul extraction a try & as expected everything goes wrong thenceforth.
The film is funny where it intends to be & makes you think as well. Paul Giamatti is excellent. But towards the end there are too many subplots going on which are dropped abruptly, for example, the Russian woman whose soul Paul "borrows", the mob boss & his actress wife...i expected more about those characters & their contribution to the plot. Comparisons with Being John Malkovich is unaviodable, but the treatment is quite different. Overall it's an interesting movie, quite watchable.
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