Review – Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Despite the vaguely intriguing title, this rapidly became Bryan’s Sense of Boredom. A woman (Julia Ormond) smells a rat when a small boy from her apartment building dies under mysterious circumstances. Her investigation uncovers an elaborate corporate plot, which might have been interesting if the picture hadn’t worn out its welcome long before it got to the point. The trouble is that the movie was Hollywood expensive without being Hollywood fun and art movie stuffy without being art movie interesting. Some of the cinematography was pretty in a snowy Denmark sort of way, but the rest of it fell flat. Mildly amusing