Smilla's Feeling For Snow (1997)

When a film breaks with tradition to marry stunts, explosions and effects with realistic characters and bizarre philosophies, you get cynical. And Smilla's Feeling For Snow (based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller) is a patchy mongrel of a movie. On the one hand it's an intelligently-structured, sci-fi psychic thriller, with Danish director Bille August (Pelle The Conqueror) proving it's possible to blend an action-packed crime thriller with an arthouse slant. On the other, it's a bizarre movie with a wacko plot. But then you can't have everything.

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