
Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a movie so absorbing, so atmospheric, so suspenseful and so dumb, that it proves my point: The subject matter doesn't matter in a movie nearly as much as mood, tone and style. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt is involving and entertaining, and features an intriguing, independent heroine. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellThis story has now been gracefully adapted by Bille August into a sleek, good-looking film that captures the book's peculiar fascination. |
| VarietyDavid StrattonAn exceedingly sleek and handsome thriller, this ambitious European co-production, like the novel on which it's quite faithfully based, starts intriguingly but fails to stay the distance. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIf you can be satisfied with just the film's atmosphere, then you might feel adequately nourished. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkThis tough-to-peg whodunit keeps you going for two hours, despite a few James Bond-ish (or Jane Bond-ish) turns that play less preposterously than you might assume were they to be divulged. |
| Lawrence Journal-WorldJon NiccumOdd, atmospheric thriller that completely falls apart in the finale |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThough enlivened by occasional touches, "Smilla's" is like the food at Taco Bell: exotic only to someone who hasn't experienced the real thing. |
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinVanessa Redgrave makes a regal if too-brief appearance. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThis is the kind of story that might have been interesting had it not been populated with dreary characters played by actors who were clearly coached to be as dull as possible. |