Smilla's Sense of Snow

Director:	Bille August
Writer:	Ann Biderman
Director of Photography:	Jorgen Persson
Editor:	Janus Billeskov Jansen
Music:	Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson Williams
Production Designer:	Anna Asp
Producers:	Bernd Eichinger and Martin Moszkowicz
	Fox Searchlight; R; 115 minutes
Release:	2/97
Cast:	Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Robert Loggia and Vanessa Redgrave
	Based on the novel by Peter Høeg

Smilla's Sense of Snow Fox Searchlight

The distant Ormond does a fine job of bringing the enigmatic mathematician Smilla Jaspersen to the big screen, but confusing editing leaves viewers, even those who read the novel, out in the cold. With her neighbor, the Mechanic (Byrne), who is as reserved and glum as she is, Smilla sets out to unravel the mysterious death of her 6-year-old neighbor, with whom she shared an uprooted childhood and a mixed heritage. The investigation leads the couple from Copenhagen to Greenland and unearths a conspiracy involving a corrupt businessman looking to exploit a century-old discovery.