Cold As Summer

• Director Jacques Maillot s exquisitely told story focuses on Rachel, a beautiful but frustrated young mother who finds parenthood a burden. She abandons her young child to embark on a series of affairs, first with a man, and then with a woman pickpocket she meets in the south of France. A female detective, desperate but unable to conceive her own child, is assigned to find her. Cold as Summer (win

In this surreal comedy, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named...Paul Giamatti. Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which hes been searching, soul storage. But complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of "soul trafficking." Balancing a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and reality and fantasy, Cold Souls is a true soul searching comedy.Synopsis: In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes COLD SOULS, first-time feature director Sophie Barth! es' surreal comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities.... In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes COLD SOULS, first-time feature director Sophie Barthes' surreal comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya. Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. Giamatti enlists their services - only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea - intending to reinstate it once he survives the performance. Complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking "mule" borrows Giamatti's stored soul for a talentless, Russian soap-opera actress. Rendered soulless, Paul is left with no choice but to follow the trail back t! o St. Petersburg. Funny, charming and wildly imaginative, the ! film exp lores the profound moods and inner struggles of a man in search of his essence. Also starring David Strathairn, Emily Watson and Dina Korzun. --© IDP/Samuel Goldwyn FilmsDirector Jacques Maillot's exquisitely told psychological thriller focuses on Rachel (the tantalizing Sarah Grappin) a single mother who seems singularly devoid of maternal instinct. Abandoning her infant child, she embarks upon a series of affairs and travels to the French Montpellier Coast where she falls into a torrid affair with a young female thief. Meanwhile Claire (Nathalie Richard), a police detective who is desperate but unable to conceive her own child, grows increasingly obsessed with finding her. Director Maillot brings a taut, suspenseful atmosphere and understated compassion to this emotionally gripping tale.