Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

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

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Richard Harris Photo
Richard Harris as Dr. Andreas Tork
Julia Ormond Photo
Julia Ormond as Smilla Jaspersen
Jim Broadbent Photo
Jim Broadbent as Dr. Lagermann
Vanessa Redgrave Photo
Vanessa Redgrave as Elsa Lübing
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English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
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English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 1 min
P/S 0 / 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle7 / 10

Great mood but outlandish icy ending

Smilla Jaspersen (Julia Ormond) is a loner living in Copenhagen who befriends a young Inuit boy from Greenland. He's unwanted and one day he falls off the roof of their apartment to his death. Nobody cares except Smilla. Only her sense of snow convinces her that he was murdered. Her investigation dives deeper and deeper into intrigue and danger.

This has great atmosphere. I absolutely love the desolate tone of the snowy north and of Smilla's life. Julia Ormond really personify the iciness of this world. It's moodiness really pushing the story into a great mystery. But it does get into unrealistic territory. It's not so much a mystery rather as an action adventure. The ending in the ice really made the whole thing too outlandish. The mood of the earlier parts are lost.

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg6 / 10

a little far out, but it doesn't freeze

I can't tell whether or not they were trying to make a point with this movie, but it's worth seeing (if only once). After a 6-year-old boy is found dead in Copenhagen, everyone assumes that he committed suicide. Everyone except Smilla Jasperson (Julia Ormond). She suspects foul play, and intends to do whatever possible to find the truth...even if it leads her all the way to her native Greenland.

Like I said, it almost seems like the sort of movie that they just made for fun (or do only Americans do that?). There's plenty of twists and turns, but I couldn't determine whether or not they were trying to make a point. Oh well...

Reviewed by ccthemovieman-13 / 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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