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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543012214 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 21, 2002 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: February 28, 1997 Sales Rank: 27452 MPN: FOXD2001221D
Description: Based on the best-selling novel this gripping, suspenseful thriller about a headstrong woman who uses her uncanny knowledge of ice and snow to unravel a taut web of lies and intrigue. When her six-year old neighbor falls from a snow covered roof, Smilla suspects the boys death was no accident. Together with a mysterious lover, who holds secrets of his own, she defies local authorities and begins a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in an effort to uncover the truth.
Amazon.com: Based on a much-praised 1992 bestseller by Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow is a film of moody power and boundless mystery in its first half, but it becomes an overblown, conspiracy-laden schlock thriller in its second. Julia Ormond stars as the half-Inuit, Greenland native of Hoeg's book, a loner who is supported by an emotionally ambivalent father (Robert Loggia) in Copenhagen. Apparently perceived as a troublemaker who sees secret plots everywhere, Smilla finds herself largely alone in an effort to discover what really happened to a six-year-old Inuit boy who fell (or jumped) off the roof of her apartment building. Somewhat aided by an ambiguous neighbor (Gabriel Byrne), Smilla investigates a connection between the child's death and the misdeeds of a mining company, a story hook that conveniently ratchets up the action but quickly dissipates the more compelling, introspective intrigue of the film's beginning. Ormond is fascinating, somehow more beautiful than usual through her emphasis of her character's destabilizing conflicts (isolation and a possibly unhinged intelligence). But she isn't done any favors by an unreliable script or by the usually superb Danish director Bille August's chronic problems working in English-language films (including his disastrous The House of the Spirits). The DVD edition of this film includes an original theatrical trailer and a short feature on the making of the production. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Certainly offbeat, but quite flat
Thriller about some nonsense involving a meteor and Greenland Eskimos. The female lead has one speed: flat. Absolutely no heat between her and her alleged costar boyfriend. The little boy has a good part, ... Read More
Rating: - Smilla's Sense of Snow
I came across this movie on late night television by accident and when I saw who was in it I set my VCR to record. I was pleased I did. I now have the DVD. It was the second movie I saw Gabriel Byrne in and ... Read More
Rating: - The Smilla Cliff Notes
Let me state immediately that while I liked this film, it does not remotely begin to convey the multi-layered density of Peter Hoeg's long, complex novel. This film should be more aptly titled, "Bille August's ... Read More
Rating: - Great mystery!
I had read this book- one of the best I had ever read, particularly about Denmark and Greenland - and it was so well written, I did not want it to end. So, of course, I wanted to see the movie. It was wonderfully ... Read More
Rating: - Read the book first...
This is a great, literal adaptation of Peter Hoeg's novel of the same name. I recommend reading the book first because it is absolutely wonderful. The film follows the novel almost to the letter and Julia Ormond just ... Read More
- Certainly offbeat, but quite flat
- Smilla's Sense of Snow
- The Smilla Cliff Notes