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”The way you have a sense of God, I have a sense of snow.”
When Smilla Jasperson (Julia Ormond) discovers that a six-year-old Inuit boy, Isaiah (Cupper Miano), who lives in her apartment building in Copenhagen, fell to his death from the roof, she isn’t convinced that he fell accidentally. Despite the insistence of the police, Smilla grows more and more certain.
Smilla had built a bond with Isaiah for they were both from Greenland. She knew Isaiah was afraid of heights and wouldn’t go up to the roof to play. Besides, his footprints in the snow indicated he’d run right from the roof door to the edge of the roof – not a typical pattern of a child playing.
Smilla questions Johannes Loyen (Tom Wilkinson), the head of the Institute for Arctic Medicine, who conducted the autopsy. She is not content with the answers she is getting and feels there is some sort of cover-up going on based on information she got from the morgue tech Lagermann (Jim Broadbent).
At the boy’s funeral, Smilla sees a man (Richard Harris) approaching Isaiah’s mother to give her a package that Juliane refuses. Smilla questions Juliane about this and finds that Juliane is to be given a widow’s pension from Greenland Mining due to the recent death.
Smilla visits her father, Moritz (Robert Loggia) to find out what he knew about Loyen because the two had gone to school together. She also asks her father for money telling him she has to make right for letting a child down.
Smilla wrote to the district attorney who agrees with her that something is amiss with this case. She then goes to visit Elsa Lubbing (Vanessa Redgrave), the former chief accountant for Greenland Mining who had signed the pension notification Juliane received.
With diligence and stealth, Smilla begins trying to unravel the mystery of young Isaiah’s death, and soon finds herself being assisted by the Mechanic (Gabriel Byrnes) who lives in Smilla’s building and also had a friendship with Isaiah.
Directed by Bille August.
Run time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Rating R.
My personal rating: C+
When Smilla Jasperson (Julia Ormond) discovers that a six-year-old Inuit boy, Isaiah (Cupper Miano), who lives in her apartment building in Copenhagen, fell to his death from the roof, she isn’t convinced that he fell accidentally. Despite the insistence of the police, Smilla grows more and more certain.
Smilla had built a bond with Isaiah for they were both from Greenland. She knew Isaiah was afraid of heights and wouldn’t go up to the roof to play. Besides, his footprints in the snow indicated he’d run right from the roof door to the edge of the roof – not a typical pattern of a child playing.
Smilla questions Johannes Loyen (Tom Wilkinson), the head of the Institute for Arctic Medicine, who conducted the autopsy. She is not content with the answers she is getting and feels there is some sort of cover-up going on based on information she got from the morgue tech Lagermann (Jim Broadbent).
At the boy’s funeral, Smilla sees a man (Richard Harris) approaching Isaiah’s mother to give her a package that Juliane refuses. Smilla questions Juliane about this and finds that Juliane is to be given a widow’s pension from Greenland Mining due to the recent death.
Smilla visits her father, Moritz (Robert Loggia) to find out what he knew about Loyen because the two had gone to school together. She also asks her father for money telling him she has to make right for letting a child down.
Smilla wrote to the district attorney who agrees with her that something is amiss with this case. She then goes to visit Elsa Lubbing (Vanessa Redgrave), the former chief accountant for Greenland Mining who had signed the pension notification Juliane received.
With diligence and stealth, Smilla begins trying to unravel the mystery of young Isaiah’s death, and soon finds herself being assisted by the Mechanic (Gabriel Byrnes) who lives in Smilla’s building and also had a friendship with Isaiah.
Directed by Bille August.
Run time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Rating R.
My personal rating: C+
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