Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)

Directed by

Bille August

Genre

drama film, action film, science fiction film, mystery film, thriller film

Country

Germany, Denmark, Sweden

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

15+

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 265 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Smilla looks into the death of a young boy in her building in Copenhagen. She follows clues that lead to a company with secret ties to Greenland.

suspensefulcoldmelancholicdeliberateintriguingbleakmysteriousatmospheric

What happens

Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 mystery thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (this was also the title of the UK release of the film) by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jaspersen, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuk boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen; Kiruna, Sweden; and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, at which August was nominated for the Golden Bear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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