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When we meet her in director Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The set of Smilla's face, the carriage...
MOVIES . . . SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW: When we first meet Smilla in director Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The...
MOVIES . . . SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW: When we first meet Smilla in director Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The...
For this two-hour film, Isabel Allende's complex, stylish novel has of necessity been stripped to its working parts. Yet the thing works in its goofy way, mainly because Bille August (of Pelle the Conqueror) is a man of apparently dauntless conviction. He has written and directed every scene...
"The House of the Spirits" as a film simply dose not work., Conjectures as to why this is so range from the competing personalities of a international all-star cast (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave, Antonio Banderas, and the list goes on), to the diverging...