François Girard is a Canadian film and theatre director known for films including The Red Violin, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and Seta (Silk).

Seta (Silk) is an adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novella. The DeBaser review notes the film's evocative photography and cites performances by Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley and Alfred Molina, and highlights themes of love and obsession.

The available review (squonimo) praises François Girard's film Seta (Silk) as a successful adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novella. It highlights evocative photography, a strong cast (Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina) and themes of love and obsession. The reviewer judges the cinematic operation largely successful.

For:Fans of literary adaptations, period dramas, evocative cinematography, and viewers interested in films set between Europe and Japan.

 "Once upon a time, a woman, the third wife of the Japanese emperor, a Chinese woman, was preparing tea. By mistake, she dropped a cocoon into the boiling water and saw a fiber emerge from it, which she then managed to transform into a thread strong enough to be woven."

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