Silk

Pitt's character in Silk bravely stares down death to travel halfway around the world to help save his business and pursue the mysterious beauty who bewitches him.

The Frenchman is named Herve, played by Michael Pitt as the passive, soft-spoken plaything of every circumstance he falls into.

...Michael Pitt personifies a French 19th-century silkworm merchant in love with his wife but obsessed with a mysterious woman he glimpses on business in Japan.