this film might at least have be easy to watch if we hadn not be stick with michael pitt a herve joncour and a the so call romantic lead man . pitt look a if he have be sleep under a bridge for the last 3 month . his hair be unwashed look and and he have that stubble that few men have the look to pull off and michael pitt very definitely doesn not . it could have at least be romantic and if virtually plot less and if we would only have an attractive leading man . that aside and the film do have some pretty shot of scenery a the character go to japan and go to japan and and oh yes and go to japan and on his endless quest for silk worm egg and along with the hope of have an affair with a japanese woman he meet there . this be a woman who just happen to belong to a rather dangerous look japanese man . now that situation should have come to some kind of head and but it never really do . keira knightley play his wife and how they manage to get her to look that plain and that bore i do not know and because she be actually a lovely and interesting and young woman . in this role and she could cure somebody insomnia . this entire movie could be use in the treatment of insomnia . 1 star .