Hi dreamers,

I saw the funniest smartest old soul movie last night, really really really good. Critics thought "Cold Souls" was a bit dry, they just don't understand. Usually I rave about a movie like "Ink" which beautifully hits metaphysical truths while not being all that mature itself, but this is different. "Cold Souls" is a meta-movie about the actor Paul Giametti playing himself playing Uncle Vanya in a play and getting too depressed, so he goes for a new soul extraction procedure whereby you can shelve you soul temporarily to get you through life better.

The film is the first feature from a French woman who is totally guided by her dreams, it is full of dream imagery and philosophical humor as people switch souls around and encounter side-effects of soullessness. Sophie Barthes based the movie on a dream she had after reading Carl Jung, she dreamt that Woody Allen had his soul extracted and was offended to find out that it was just a chick pea. She interpreted this as relating to an archetype of the soul as the pea sized irritant of conscience, like in her childhood favorite story the Princess and the Pea, and she later even found a sufi poem about the chickpea soul. She then figured Woody Allen would never work with her, so she was guided by synchronicities to meet and write the screenplay just for Paul Giametti, who is fantastic. She explains more about her worldview and surrealist influences here: http://www.doublex.co...
http://www.curatormag...

regards,
Carl