
KOJI YAKUSHO AND MICHAEL PITT
Jacques-Yves Gucia
After seeing Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice, François Girard targeted her for his adaptation of Alessandro Barrico's 19th-century love story. ''Everyone thought [getting her] was unrealistic,'' he says. But Knightley who the director says is ''a great fan of the book'' said yes. She plays the wife of an officer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch's Michael Pitt) who's sent to gather silkworms in Japan, where he has an obsessive affair with a concubine. Why do we suspect this doesn't have a happy ending?


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