Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 15902 15.9K

secret based on novel or book copenhagen, denmark inuit comet arctic polar circle region

Plot summary

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

Director

Bille August Photo
Bille August

Top cast

Jürgen Vogel Photo
Jürgen Vogel as Nils Jakkelsen
Charles Lewsen Photo
Charles Lewsen as Pastor
Richard Harris Photo
Richard Harris as Dr. Andreas Tork
Mario Adorf Photo
Mario Adorf as Capt. Sigmund Lukas
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1 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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1.94 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Absorbing intrigue set in frozen lands and satisfyingly directed

This mystery picture begins on a crashing-meteor opening and concerns about Smilla(Julia Ormond), a lonely scientist resident in Copenhagen. The grumpy Smilla is an half-America and half-Inuit with many problems of adaptation and her father(Robert Loggia) is a rich financier. When she returns home discovers the body of six-years-old friend named Isaiah(Miano) nearly her apartment building. Smilla believes the kid was killed and starts investigating , it leads to the Greenland mining company that is owner the magnate Tork(Richard Harris). Meanwhile she falls in love with her suspicious neighbor(Gabriel Byrne).The picture based on Peter Hoeg's best seller novel packs suspense,thrills,intrigue, tension and interesting character study. The story is well developed though its final fail to sustain the outcome and is a little bit crappy. Suspenseful and mysterious musical score by Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams. Exceptional secondary casting mostly formed by British actors such as Jim Broadbent,Vanessa Redgrave,Bob Peck, Tom Wilkinson, among them. Evocative and cold cinematography is consistently created by Jorgen Persson, Billie August's usual cameraman.Location photography is particularly breathtaking with impressive images like a large icebreaker ship, snowy outdoors and giant floes thawing, among others. This partially successful first attempt at the thriller and tense mystery is efficiently directed by August. Billie is the Danish's best director, an expert on intelligent dramas as ¨Pelle the conqueror¨which took the best foreign-language film Oscar , ¨Twist and shout¨,¨The best intentions¨, ¨House of spirits¨, and ¨Les Miserables¨. Rating : Well worth seeing, better than average.
Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 3 / 10

High Hopes Dashed By Horrible Last 40 Minutes

This is a fairly low-key for a crime story, a tale about a woman trying to find out why a young boy fell from a rooftop to his death. I had high hopes for this movie but the last 35-40 minutes were so disappointing that I'd never watch this again. That ending had so many holes to it, it was mind-boggling.I like Julia Ormand, who plays the lead character, but she's a bit surly and rough with this character. I also enjoyed seeing scenery in Denmark and Greenland, not the normal sites for crime film movies. Few films, I imagine, have been made in Greenland with its brutal temperatures. (There is a fascinating very short featurette on Greenland that comes with the DVD.)Perhaps worth a rental, but only with a discount coupon, meaning don't spend more than $3 to look at this. Heck, you can buy it for $5 most places, which tells you something.
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