hyper sapien : people from another star is a 1986 film directed by peter r. hunt and starring dennis holahan , ricky paull goldin , sydney penny , keenan wynn , and rosie marcel .

hyper sapien : people from another star

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hyper sapien : people from another star ( 1986 ) . stars : sydney penny , ricky paull goldin . director - peter hunt . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
earth - it ' s a nice place to visit , especially if you ' re an alien kid from outer space . or so think the characters from hyper sapien : people from another star , a film making its tv debut on the disney channel ( it had a brief theatrical release in 1986 ) .
she was from another star . he had waited his whole life for this one meeting . together they fell in love with a place called earth .
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ok . this is definitely going to be a quick review of a movie because i am going to see ant - man later tonight and i need to get food and snacks before i get to the theater . so let’s see what i have on hand today . ahh , a movie from the sci - fi invasion collection . well this should be interesting . based on the title alone , it looks like this movie will actually be a science fiction movie and might actually have some sort of invasion aspect . holy cow , this movie might actually fit with the theme of this collection . well now i really am ready to watch today’s movie , hyper sapien : people from another star .
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this would ' ve come out around a time when i would ' ve watched anything vaguely sci - fi related , but this looked like some unwatchable shit even for me . i mean look at that poster . i want to see people from another star , not some cowboy , riding a dirt bike with a steer ' s horns mounted on the handlebars . i can get that shit right here ! ( and how - this was filmed in calgary . )
three aliens from the planet taros land on earth and are befriended by a wyoming rancher ' s son .
robin and tavvy are two children from a humanoid alien people who have established a base on the moon . they decide that they dont like merely watching earth at a distance and maintaining the cultural quarantine that their people insist on . and so they run away to earth with their three - limbed pet . landing in rural wyoming , they are befriended by a teenage cowboy robert dirt mcalphen and his grandfather .
three aliens from the planet taros land on earth and are befriended by a wyoming rancher & apos ; s son .
back in space , the hyper sapiens decide that the girls need to be brought back to the mother ship since they refuse to return on their own . . . the primped out leader gets big and lectures the earth .
rosie marcel , the only british actor in the film , would later go on to star as one of tv ' s most disliked characters , jac naylor , in holby city ( 1999 ) .
trippy indie madeline ' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
a farmboy tries to help two cute little aliens who are running away from home . much less cute big aliens chase them all over wyoming .
is for parents wishing to park their children for an afternoon . it is so lacking in any distinguishing or standout qualities it can safely be forgotten the moment people have reached the parking lot on the way home .
dirt has to go out and find the girls some undies , so , he steals some from his female neighbor . needless to say , one of my favorite parts !
directors of james bond movies rarely have prolific or memorable careers outside of the franchise ; peter hunt ( of on her majesty ' s secret service ) is no exception . with hyper sapien , he has made a competent film whose only ambition is to be gentle and sweet with little in the way of plot or ideas to get in the way of those goals . i’m not sure if small children would be bored by it , but i definitely was . the most memorable aspect of the movie is the bittersweet fact that it contains keenan wynn’s final performance , which isn’t nearly enough to make this slog worthwhile .
impossible - to - dislike e . t . / starman hybrid set in pastoral wyoming , directed by a bond guy & bankrolled by jason schwartzmann ' s parents . charming kid actors , great turn from keenan wynn as
grandpa
. . . its refreshing to watch a film about fundamentally nice people . good saturday afternoon movie . make sure 2 check 4 the unreal alien dog puppet who spins like sonic the hedgehog and has a triad of buttholes for a face .
corny family movie about two big - haired alien girls who come down to earth to check things out . sydney penny is ok as the older , teen alien but ricky paull goldin is a typical vacuous 80 ' s pretty - boy with over - styled hair . the creature sidekick is almost as annoying as jar - jar and keenan wynn plays yet another daffy old guy character . overall , it ' s a technically decent production without much imagination .
didn ' t see it then though , likely because the video movie guide probably gave it a turkey . i might sometimes look back on that annual tome as being simplistic and quaint in our spoiled internet age , but it did mark a big shift in the way i anticipated movies , from childlike , uncritical…
this wasn’t that bad of a movie but it could have been better . the acting was pretty decent . i really liked keenan wynn ( grandpa ) and his interaction with kirbi . the plot was somewhat basic but i thought the underlying theme about the young leading people into the future was pretty well written . i also thought the overzealous cop thinking the aliens were assassins after the senator was really funny . kirbi was definitely one of the more interesting aliens to show up , being a three eyed , three legged creature that runs by cartwheeling really fast , eats coal and drinks gasoline , and can shoot lasers from his eyes . the chase scene with kirbi shooting at the cops was pretty funny . nothing really groundbreaking but worth a watch if nothing else is on .
if it ever came to interacting with aliens on my part , i would wait for them to contact me instead of being the one to initiate contact - i learned from sources such as the war of the worlds that even a peaceful gesture such as a white flag could be misinterpreted , or the aliens may just be mean bastards at heart . you may now be asking that if aliens did make the first gesture - and it appeared to be a peaceful one - what would i do if i was the one that they made the gesture towards ? well , i admit that since i am a very curious person , i would be very interested in the idea of direct contact with the inhabitants of another world . but even then , would a human be able to relate to an alien ? for that matter , would an alien be able to relate to a human ? just think about it for a minute . for one thing , evolution on their planet would almost certainly mean that the aliens would not look like human beings . well , it could be argued that there are plenty of human beings that have been able to relate to their pets despite looking very different . and the aliens , since they have the technology to travel to other planets , would have the extra advantage of being intelligent - making it a lot easier to communicate with . let ' s say that human beings and aliens would be able to relate to each other on a fairly easy level . could this eventually lead to something more ? i ' m talking about two different species falling in love with each other . hollywood has tackled this topic several times , but when you look at this topic in stuff like star trek , you will see that the humans and aliens look pretty similar . it ' s not that far removed from interracial dating .
the film movie had it ' s moments of being okay ( from adult perspective ) and i ' m sure if i watched this one as a kid i would have liked it . actually i ' m surprised i ' ve never seen this one before but then again i was 14 in 1986 and this film is geared for a younger than 10 years old audience i believe .
hoping to find evidence that earthlings aren’t as bad as the rest of the solar system believes , extra - terrestrial sisters robyn and tavy jump ship in wyoming accompanied by a super - intelligent fuzz ball named kirbi . befriended by a teenage cowboy , they work to save a beautifully photographed natural landscape under threat from developers in this delightful interstellar family adventure with a still - timely environmental message .
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derives from the kids attempting to combat the aliens using a variety of homemade weapons or trying to hide the existence of the aliens from the adults . to john schultzs credit , though the aliens speak english and use modern colloquialisms , the film is not overrun with an annoying barrage ( or at least excess ) of pop - culture humour , as is the case with many other films of this ilk . all of the kids play competently , with neither an overkill of saccharine or knowing cynicism . however , the treatment remains strictly middle of the road and eminently forgettable . under a more lively director , the basic premise could have amounted to something  imagine how much fun the idea could have been in the hands of a director like robert rodriguez or joe dante . alas , handled by john schultz , it amounts to no more than a school holiday season junk food snack .
as a talia shire fan , i was disappointed to note she only had a cameo in this production . however , she has executive - produced by her company taliafilm . ltd . , this tale of aliens that look like humans coming down to our planet earth and checking to see if it benefits their species to live . the tale is told from the point of view of 2 alien girls and the new human friend they find in a boy , who along with his male guardian , welcome them to this world and let them experience living as we do . this film is best suited to young children and those viewers whose interests lie in the extra - terrestrial .
not only have i seen this movie twice , i was in the right place at the right time and saw several scenes as they were filmed , as a few scenes were shot right here in calgary , alberta , canada . most of the movie was shot west of the city in kananaskis country . i thought it was a great movie and i really liked kirbi with three eyes and three arms . i also liked the scene where we saw an eagle flying . . . . from their perspective , in other words , through their eyes . . . . that was pretty cool . all in all it ' s a great family movie , now if i could only find it on d . v . d .
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dirt wakes up early morning then looks like he ' s talking on a ham rig . then records the time stating ' it ' s 3 : 00 a . m . in london . assuming pst , that would be 7 : 00 p . m . in wyoming .
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in a number of my past reviews , i have touched on topics that are more fantastic in nature than usual . these fantastic topics have been stuff that i have observed in various movies over the years , fantastic things like ghosts , vampires , and zombies . in these past reviews where i have discussed such things , i have generally stuck to discussing as to their possibility of really existing , and if i personally believe that they could exist . this includes the topic of aliens , which i last discussed in my review of evil aliens . what i have not discussed , however , when it comes to topics such as aliens , is how i would personally react if i came face to face with one of these fantastic creatures . well , if it was a zombie , i would simply walk away - they would be too slow in their shuffling to catch up with me . if it were a vampire , i would make a cross with my index fingers and shove it in the vampire ' s face . but what about aliens ? what would i do , for example , if i were to get up one morning , open the curtain , and see that a flying saucer had landed next to my building ? well , i would wonder how such a large craft would be able to land smoothly in my densely - packed neighborhood . seriously though , i am pretty sure i would be seriously freaked out . i would probably immediately drag out a suitcase , quickly pack it , and get out of the area right away . while it ' s true that at that point there would be nothing indicating that the occupants inside the craft had done anything bad , there would also be no indication that they would be good in nature as well . better safe than sorry .
the screenplay does later try to explain their motivations for running away to earth , but the explanations will likely sound hollow to even the smallest viewers . would children believe that a couple of minors would
in order to enjoy stuff they have observed on earth radio and television signals , with what they ' ve seen being stuff like mtv and ronald mcdonald ? i didn ' t buy it . also , i did not buy the fact that once they are on earth and start traveling through the wilderness , it is revealed they ran away with no definite plans as to how they would eat , find shelter , and make a living . and while these sisters are two characters , the screenplay only seems to have material for the older robyn character and doesn ' t seem to know what to do with the younger tavy character ; in fact , the screenplay seems to realize this towards the end , writing out tavy completely and not having her participate in the climatic action . by the way , it ' s a wonder when the action does start to come , because after the beginning when the two sisters land on earth , practically
happens for the next hour . not just practically nothing that advances the story , but practically nothing that is exciting , intriguing , or full of wonder or awe . the movie has a premise , but doesn ' t have any idea as to what to do with it except for throwing in a police chase near the end , and that ' s resolved with a feeble
gesture . it should probably come as no surprise then , that the movie ' s three credited screenwriters not only had no previous screenwriting credits , but they never had any other credits as of this date . i wonder how they managed to sell this asinine script . if you ' ve been as unfortunate to have seen
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maybe not the greatis story line ever , but i ' ve many times and i ' m sure i will many more times .
i thought it was a great movie and i really liked kirbi with three eyes . . .
i got this as part of a sci fi mega pack . the story didn ' t have a whole lot of twists and was quite et like . the tri - lateral alien was really different . . . . . . and required some good puppeteer work because no cgi back then .
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in the story , two sisters ignore the warnings of their elders and head for a visit to our planet , in hopes of meeting some real - life earthlings . accompanied by a three - eyed , three - legged space creature , they land in wyoming , meet a local teen - ager , and become embroiled in an exciting adventure . keenan wynn , in his last film role , plays the earthling ' s grandfather .
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a des millions d ' années lumière de notre planète , d ' étranges extraterrestres nous observent à notre insu . pour eux , nous ne sommes pas prêts à recevoir leur visite . mais robyn et tavy comptent bien prouver le contraire à leurs aînés , et c ' est le cœur plein d ' espoir qu ' elles mettent le cap sur la planète terre afin de vivre la plus incroyable et plus merveilleuse des aventures . . .
it ' s got a three - eyed , three - legged , dog - monster that spins really really fast in it . i guess that ' s something .
keenan wynn’s final film is about a guy named dirt who falls in love with an alien girl which frustrates his sister’s apparently incestuous machinations and features an animatronic dog - spider .
dumb , but reasonably well put together , with good production values and acting . in a cheap pack of 50 sci - fi flicks , it’s nice to get a genial but forgettable one amidst all the pain .
the film is not all that bad but it ' s really geared for the kids to much for me to really enjoy and not like and not as good as e . t . but it is somewhat enjoyable . if you have kids and like sci - fi ( or your kids do ) then this is an entertaining family film .
i would recommend this movie for a family styled sci - fi movie night / day . i ' m sure the kids would enjoy it with that 3 - eyed , 3 - legged monster thingy running around who ' s about as annoying as jar - jar binks .
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anyways , i was looking at the budget for this flick , $ 13 , 000 , 000 , and thinking of how many better movies the dungeon gang could make for that amount of cash . lastly , in 2002 , we signed a contract with a new tv network to produce our
series but they lost all their money ( $ 25 , 000 , 000 ) in the stock market and we saw only a few bucks and never completed our next movie , voodoo club . . .
tavy and her little sister alien decide to pay earth a visit since they just happened to be passing by and all . . . * refer to soundclip , that is all , over and out !
ricky paull ( the blob ' 88 ) goldin plays love interest , dirt ! . . looks like he ' s just doin ' his thang !
the girls bring along their companion and protector , kirbi . this tripod thing is the best part of the film , the contortions and positions it puts itself into will definitely amaze you !
keenan wynn plays grandpa , this was his 174th and last role , he died that same year . we love keenan . . .
there are lots of chases and explosions before this 92 minute flick ends , dirt gets to ride on a space ship but both he and tavy decide to go back to earth and live their lives there . . . happy ending .
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aliens in the attic ( 2009 ) . children vs alien invaders . stars : carter jenkins , austin butler , ashley tisdale . director - john schultz . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
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being made in 2009 rather than 1989 is that the aliens are created using cgi effects rather than animatronics and there is a far higher degree of culture - savvy in - reference humour .
on a certain level , the films basic premise  kids use their own resources to repel alien invaders that are hiding in their attic while trying to ensure their parents remain oblivious  is a winning one . it is easily the sort of idea that could have filled a series of young adults books and must have seemed like a potential winner to 20th century fox when they greenlit the project . unfortunately ,
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( 1983 ) . staying with the bond series , schwartzmann employed former bond series editor peter hunt . hunt had briefly turned director on the bond series for
( 1969 ) and delivered some of the most exciting action sequences ever to grace a bond film . throughout the 1970s , hunt directed adventure films such as
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smilla 's sense of snow ( released in the united kingdom under the original novel title ) is a 1997 danish-british-american thriller film directed by bille august and starring julia ormond , gabriel byrne , and richard harris .

based on the 1992 novel miss smilla 's feeling for snow ( original danish title : frøken smillas fornemmelse for sne ) by danish author peter høeg , the film is about a transplanted greenlander , smilla jasperson , who investigates the mysterious death of a small inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in copenhagen .

scenes from the film were shot in copenhagen , kiruna and western greenland .

smilla ' s sense of snow ( film )

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fr0ken smillas fornemmelse for sne . 1992 ; as smilla’s sense of snow , translated by tiina nunnally , 1993 ; as miss smilla’s feeling for snow , translated by f . david , 1993 .
smilla ' s sense of snow [ videorecording ] / a german - danish - swedish co - production of constantin film produktion gmbh ; in cooperation with smilla film as greenland film production ab and bavarian film gmbh ; fox searchlight pictures presents a bernd eichinger production ; a billie august film ; screenplay by ann biderman ; produced by bernd eichinger and martin moszkowicz ; directed by billie august .
smilla ' s sense of snow was adapted into a film in 1997 by twentieth century fox . the film was directed by bille august and starred julia ormond as smilla , gabriel byrne as føjl , and richard harris as moritz . the film is available in both video and dvd formats .
smilla ' s sense of snow [ videorecording ] / a german - danish - swedish co - production of constantin film produktion gmbh ; in cooperation with smilla film as greenland film production ab and bavarian film gmbh ; fox searchlight pictures presents a bernd eichinger production ; a billie august film ; screenplay by ann biderman ; produced by bernd eichinger and martin moszkowicz ; directed by billie august . - franklin
watch the film version of smilla ' s sense of snow and note how director bille august chooses to portray the story . what are some of the ways the film conveys the main themes of the novel ? does the film seem
true
to the novel , or are there inexplicable changes ?
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production : a fox searchlight release of a constantin film produktion - smilla film a / s - greenland film production - bavaria film co - production , with the support of ffa , danish film institute , nordic film & tv fund . produced by bernd eichinger , martin moszkowicz . directed by bille august . screenplay , ann biderman , based on the novel by peter hoeg
hazleton , lesley , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in the seattle times , october 3 , 1993 , p . f2 .
simonds , merilyn , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in the montreal gazette , december 11 , 1993 , p . 12 .
source : diane henningfeld , critical essay on smilla ' s sense of snow , in novels for students , the gale group , 2003 .
smilla ' s sense of snow .
novels for students . . encyclopedia . com . ( july 9 , 2018 ) . urltoken
an abridged version of smilla ' s sense of snow , read by rebecca pidgeon , was released by harper collins in august 1993 as an audiobook .
perhaps the most striking feature of smilla ' s sense of snow is its setting . from the deep cold of the danish winter in the opening scene to the last desperate skate across the ice in greenland , høeg uses precise and concrete language to evoke a sense of coldness , ice , and snow , which mirrors smilla ' s sense of isolation and alienation .
nathan , robert , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in new york times book review , september 26 , 1993 , p . 12 .
smilla ' s sense of snow ( 1997 ) . stars : julia ormond , gabriel byrne , richard harris . director - bille august . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
smiley , jane , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in washington post book world , october 24 , 1993 , pp . 1 , 11 .
eder , richard , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in los angeles times book review , september 26 , 1993 , pp . 3 , 11 .
henry , william , iii , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in people weekly , vol . 40 , no . 14 , 1993 , p . 32–34 .
shapiro , laura , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in newsweek , vol . 122 , no . 10 , september 6 , 1993 , p . 54 .
another reading group guide for smilla ' s sense of snow is available at urltoken ( last accessed october 2002 ) , including interviews , biography , questions , and links .
leithauser , brad , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in new republic , vol . 209 , no . 18 , november 1 , 1992 , p . 39 .
meyer , michael , review of smilla ' s sense of snow , in new york review of books , vol . xl , no . 19 , november 18 , 1993 , p . 41 .
henningfeld is a professor of english literature and composition who has written widely for educational and academic publishers . in this essay , henningfeld considers smilla ' s sense of snow as a postmodern epic .
' ' smilla ' s sense of snow ' ' is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or guardian ) . it includes brief sexual situations , brief violence and some profanity .
by peter høeg , producers  bernd eichinger & martin moskowicz , photography  jorgen persson , music  harry gregson - williams & hans zimmer , visual effects  cinesite ( supervisor  brad kuehn ) , special effects supervisor  peter hutchinson , production design  anna asp . production company  ffa / greenland film production / nordic film / smilla film a - s / tv fund / constantin film produktion gmbh / dansk filminstituit / bavaria film .
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if you can be satisfied with just the film ' s atmosphere , then you might feel adequately nourished .
the film has an elegant smilla in julia ormond , whose remoteness works better here than it has in other roles . ms . ormond plays smilla in the chic , alert , unsmiling fashion of a french film star , and she richly rewards the camera ' s many beautiful close - ups of smilla cogitating on crime .
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a reading group guide for smilla ' s sense of snow is available at urltoken ( last accessed october 2002 ) along with an interview with the author , discussion questions , an author biography , and links to other sites .
his film career got a boost from an “eastern , ” i . e . lost horizon . but dimitri tiomkin made his name on western after western , including today’s little - known “film score” highlight .
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this story has now been gracefully adapted by bille august into a sleek , good - looking film that captures the book ' s peculiar fascination . readers of mr . hoeg ' s best seller will find this a faithful film that mirrors the novel ' s strengths - - a tough , interesting main character and a strong sense of place - - while also sharing its plot problems . ' ' smilla ' s sense of snow ' ' begins grippingly , then devolves into ever less credible derring - do as the action turns smilla from a self - styled detective into an adventurer . the story finally leaves credibility behind as it sails off to the frozen north .
set in copenhagen , this mystery thriller features mixed - blood inuit smilla , who has an uncanny sense for different kinds of snow . after visiting the scene where a boy plummeted to his death , she examines the snow and learns that it may not be an accident after all .
' ' smilla ' s sense of snow ' ' has a heroine whose mother was killed by a walrus , one small sign of the chilly exoticism that made peter hoeg ' s mystery novel such a huge , unlikely popular success . mr . hoeg ' s tale of arctic intrigue moved from urbane copenhagen to remote regions of greenland with scientific concentration and with a snappish main character who enjoyed quoting euclid and philosophizing about snow .
smilla ' s sense of snow is based on peter hoeg ' s bestselling 1993 suspense novel . the literate screenplay by ann biderman vividly conveys the heroine ' s intelligence and idiosyncrasies . it is the best role of julia ormond ' s career . she shines when talking about the beauty of mathematics or the variations of snow . the drama is populated by colorful characters including a stuttering neighbor ( gabriel byrne ) , smilla ' s knowledgeable physician father ( robert loggia ) , a christian corporate accountant ( vanessa redgrave ) , and a blind sound technician .
jay cocks previously collaborated with martin scorsese on the screenplay for scorsese ' s film adaptation of edith wharton ' s novel
the age of innocence .
his other screenwriting credits include
strange days
and
made in milan .
cocks is a former film critic for time magazine .
høeg succeeds , then , in initiating the reader into the complexities of the colonial relationship and clearly leads the reader to consider the fate of other polar people across the world . thus , without historical and cultural background information , the reader loses some of the richness of smilla ' s sense of snow as a postcolonial novel .
mccue , john , review of miss smilla ' s feeling for snow , in times literary supplement , no . 4720 , september 17 , 1993 , p . 20 .
schaffer , rachel ,
smilla ' s sense of gender identity ,
in clues : a journal of detection , vol . 19 , no . 1 , spring– summer 1998 , pp . 47–60 .
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it is likely that smilla ' s sense of snow will continue to generate critical interest . as a generic hybrid and as an example of postmodernity , the novel elicits a different response with each reading . the wide critical understanding of the book speaks both to its importance as well as its multidimensionality .
one of høeg ' s major concerns in smilla ' s sense of snow is the relationship between denmark and its former colony greenland . through smilla , høeg recounts the history of this relationship , beginning first in the eighteenth century when the royal greenland trading company set up a highly protective system of trade with greenland . as such , the raw materials of the island became the sole property of denmark , and greenland became a colony .
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mr . loggia brings the film dynamic energy , even if he ' s somewhat miscast as smilla ' s suave father . richard harris plays a captain of industry with suitable ambiguity . and vanessa redgrave makes another scene - stealing appearance as a corporate accountant with a conscience . her performance is brief , but it ' s good enough to melt snow .
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smilla jaspersen , half danish , half greenlander , attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building . suspecting wrongdoing , smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to greenland . scenes from the film were shot in copenhagen and western greenland . the film was entered into the 47th berlin international film festival , where director bille august was nominated for the golden bear .
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forget my first trip , terrible . that had nothing to do with this beautiful country , i was too young and couldn’t appreciated the wonderful scenery . many years later i saw the movie “smilla’s sense of snow” during a long transatlantic flight and fortunately this spurred me to revisit .
loose , julian , review of miss smilla ' s feeling for snow , in london review of books , vol . 16 , no . 9 , may 12 , 1994 , p . 27 .
høeg ' s first novel forestilling om det tyvende arhundrede was published in denmark in 1988 . translated as the history of danish dreams , the book was published in english in 1995 . critics praised the debut novel highly . however , it was not until the publication of his third novel , frøken smillas fornemmelse for sne , that høeg became known internationally . published simultaneously in 1993 as smilla ' s sense of snow by farrar , straus and giroux in the united states and as miss smilla ' s feeling for snow in england , the novel immediately won outstanding reviews from critics and readers alike . tiina nunnally , the translator of the american version and the primary translator of the english version , along with the pseudonymous
f . david ,
also won high praise from reviewers for her brilliant rendering of the danish novel into english . she received an award from the american translators association for her translation of the novel . both time and entertainment weekly selected smilla ' s sense of snow as their best novel of the year . in 1997 , director bille august released his film rendition of the novel . the novel also won a 1992 glass key award from the crime writers of scandinavia . since its publication , smilla ' s sense of snow has been translated into seventeen languages , testifying to its worldwide appeal .
the film score , hosted by chicago tribune film critic michael phillips , explores oscar - winning music , as well as compositions that were nominated but did not win , and a handful of themes that surprisingly did not receive a nomination .
here 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 .
smilla ' s sense of snow ' ' is a superbly made film with one of the goofiest plots in many moons . nothing in the final 30 minutes can possibly be taken seriously , and yet the movie works . even the ending works , sort of , because the film has built up so much momentum .
august directs these scenes with considerable skill and respect for the source material . for most of the film’s first hour , the metaphysical mystery is tantalizingly well - realized .
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whiteside , shaun , review of miss smilla ' s feeling for snow , in manchester guardian weekly , vol . 149 , no . 19 , november 7 , 1993 , p . 29 .
and subversion of the murder mystery / suspense novel genre . smilla ' s sense of snow is a complicated and rich novel , a fast - paced thriller , a love story , an anthropological exploration , and a philosophical treatise all in one book . høeg ' s accomplishment with this novel has moved him to the top of the list of danish writers publishing at the beginning of the twenty - first century .
understanding the cultural and historical relationship between greenland and denmark is essential for an understanding of smilla ' s sense of snow . although denmark had granted greenland home rule in 1979 , a decade before høeg began writing his novel , the events leading to this political decision as well as the aftermath of the home rule act deeply inform the events of the novel .
”strangers in paradise” by nader mousavizadeh , in new republic , no . 212 , 1993 ; ”fleeing literary limelight for calm obscurity” ( interview ) by sarah lyall , in new york times , 6 october 1993 ; ”peter h0eg and the critical apes” by lars henrik aagaard , translated by w . glyn jones , in danish literary magazine , no . 10 , 1996 ; ”smilla’s sense of success : peter hoeg believes that the woman and the ape represents a breakthrough , yet he tempers his enthusiasm” ( interview ) by dan cryer , in newsday , 3 december 1996 ; ”a house of mourning : fr0ken smillas fornemmelse for sne
by mary kay norseng and ”peter h0eg and the sense of writing” by hans henrik m0ller , in scandinavian studies , no . 69 , 1997 ; ”film must speak to the heart : a conversation between peter h0eg and bille august” by jes stein pedersen , in smilla’s sense of snow : the making of a film by bille august , adapted from the novel by peter h0eg by karin trolle , 1997 ; ”smilla’s sense of gender identity” by rachel schaffer , in clues : a journal of detection , no . 19 , 1998 .
williams , john , review of miss smilla ' s feeling for snow , in new statesman and society , vol . 6 , no . 268 , september 3 , 1993 , p . 41 .
he won an oscar for spellbound , among others , but miklos rozsa’s finest moment on film may have been this nerve - wracking waltz from madame bovary .
has admitted that the film did not turn out as well as he hoped . he said that in hindsight , adapting
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the theme of a marginalized group’s struggles and elements of fantasy literature or ”magical realism” that are found in smilla’s sense of snow are more representative of h0eg’s overall body of work than the conventions of the mystery genre , which he adapted for this particular novel and has not returned to since , albeit to the chagrin of many readers . h0eg’s novels , like his personal life , demonstrate sympathy for those whose relation to the dominant forces of ”civilization” is either grudging , unwilling , or doomed . his characters wrestle with the consequences of cultural oppression in a wide variety of forms—from the implications of smilla’s mixed ethnicity to the abuses heaped upon students at an ostensibly progressive boarding school for troubled youths in h0eg’s third novel , de maske egnede ( borderliners ) .
interesting read . my first time to read a book from denmark and originally written in danish . my first time to read some facts about greenland and the arctic circle . my first time to learn many things about snow . oh snow ! i have not seen snow - covered ground . neither have i seen snow falling from the sky . this book made me want to go to greenland and learn all the things smilla jasperson knows and senses about snow . the story is about smilla , who is half - danish ( father ) and half - greenlander ( mothe
one of the great film composition achievements of the 21st century was disqualified for academy awards consideration . listen to jonny greenwood’s there will be blood suite and tell me if he was robbed or not .
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in smilla ' s sense of snow , the reader learns that smilla was a member of the young greenlander ' s council , a group in denmark comprised of greenlandic students and dedicated to home rule for greenland . as a result of pressure from this and other radical groups , denmark established a home rule commission in 1975 , and by 1979 home rule had been established . remarkably , the greenlandic inuit were the first inuit people to rule themselves around the world after the advent of colonialism .
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contemporary female film composers are a criminally small group . music from oscar winner rachel portman , lesley barber and mica levi .
smilla’s sense of snow established h0eg’s reputation , but in doing so also set expectations about his style and subject matter that have perhaps unjustly skewed the response to his other works , all of which have since been translated into english . smilla’s sense of snow was billed by many reviewers as a mystery novel , and the plot that revolves around its heroine , an inuit / danish woman named smilla qaavigaaq jaspersen who studies glaciers for a living , certainly contains many of the conventions of this genre . however , in examining the seemingly accidental death of a young neighbor who has fallen from a snowy roof , smilla finds herself entangled in a far - reaching conspiracy that allows h0eg to do much more than simply spin out a thrilling detective tale . smilla’s mixed heritage provides h0eg with the opportunity to comment critically on the historical maltreatment of the inuit natives of greenland by the danes . furthermore , the novel contains a subplot about a wondrous meteorite that may be alive , through which h0eg engages in an examination of the ethics of contemporary science and scientists .
mr . august , the director whose films include ' ' the best intentions ' ' and ' ' pelle the conqueror , ' ' does a fine job of conveying such details in quick , economic fashion . but with a plot that grows increasingly far - fetched , his ' ' smilla ' s sense of snow ' ' has as much to do with glossy good looks as with real information . the film ' s smilla changes costumes with a frequency that rivals evita ' s , and she suggests a stevedore envisioned by helmut newton by the time she stows away on a boat . the film ' s final confrontation is remarkable not only for spectacular glimpses of greenland ' s lonely white scenery and for an actor gutsy enough to play a scene in freezing water but also for conspicuous product plugs on the characters ' parkas .
oh my , this book is bad . the premise is an interesting enough hook - a boy has fallen off a snow laden roof . the police file it as an accident , but smilla , with an extraordinary feeling for snow , thinks not . smilla ' s intuition that a banal letter found in the boy ' s apartment about his mother ' s pension might hold a clue to the boy ' s death leads her to elsa lubing , signee of the letter . elsa gives smilla the key and secret code that allow her to break into the cryolite corporation ' s archives holdi
smilla ' s mother , although dead for many years , continues to play an important role in smilla ' s life . how has ane influenced her daughter over the years ? how do you think smilla will come to terms with her mixed heritage ?
a recent oscar winner , alexandre desplat’s beguiling score for “the grand budapest hotel” continues wfmt’s exploration of the sound of cinema .
upon its english - language release in 1993 . although you would hardly know it from the way that the film was promoted ,
something peculiar happens to smilla ' s sense of snow as it sails toward its denouement … ( it ) takes on the trappings of movies like the blob ( whose extraterrestrial predator , one recalls , was shipped to the arctic ) , the thing ( whose monster preyed on the inhabitants of an arctic station ) and them ( which evoked a world threatened by genetic mutation ) .
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one of sjöwall and wahlöö’s motives for taking up the genre was to give their views a broader audience , a desire that has driven many of their successors , especially since the international success of the danish writer peter hoeg’s “smilla’s sense of snow , ” published in the united states in 1994 . today , about a hundred scandinavian crime writers have been translated into english , including anne holt , who is a former minister of justice in norway . the crime tale has become to scandinavia what the sonnet was to elizabethan england : its trademark literary form .
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 . . . see full summary »
she thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love . she lives in a world of numbers , science and memories - - a dark , exotic stranger in a strange land . and now smilla jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime . . . it happened in the copenhagen snow . a six - year - old boy , a greenlander like smilla , fell to his death from the top of his apartment buil
it is also a detective story that comes with an uncommon strength of characterization . the character of smilla , removed from her natural environment , emotionally withdrawn and with an innate sense of the nature of snow , is a fascinating and deeply original creation . one of the standout aspects of the film is julia ormond , a highly talented actress who has been almost criminally neglected in the major recognition department and has almost entirely vanished from screens subsequent to this . it is she that succeeds in turning smilla into a completely believable character on screen . you do not believe you are seeing an actress act , rather that you are seeing a real character on screen .
mathematics may seem like an unlikely theme for a book that is about the murder of a young child and the dangerous path the narrator must take to discover the motives of those responsible for the murder . yet smilla ' s sense of snow is nothing if not unpredictable . smilla finds in mathematics the certainty and stability she lacks in herself . she says ,
i ' m not perfect . i think more highly of snow and ice than love . it ' s easier for me to be interested in mathematics than to have affection for my fellow human beings .
in addition , when smilla first meets isaiah , she reads to him from euclid ' s elements . smilla says ,
there is the feeling that always comes over me at the mere thought of that book : veneration . the knowledge that it is the foundation , the boundary . that if you work your way backwards , past lobachevsky and newton and as far back as you can go , you end up at euclid .
smilla ' s two great skills are reading snow and direction , two geometrically determined skills . the crystalline structure of a snowflake can be mathematically determined and predicted with absolute regularity in spite of its infinite variety . in addition , navigation requires an intuitive sense of vectors and angles . tellingly , smilla ' s
soul brother
is newton , not einstein . newton ' s notion of
absolute space
is necessary for smilla ' s navigation of the world . when she ventures out into the einsteinian paradoxes of time and space , she loses her orientation . out on the ice , which she knows so well , the novel ends unresolved as smilla flings herself after the villain , leaving foundation and mathematics behind .
ane is smilla ' s mother who dies when smilla is just seven years old . she is a native greenland hunter . for smilla ' s first seven years , she travels with her mother on hunts . ane is the great love of moritz jaspersen ' s life . although she has been dead for many years at the opening of the novel , smilla flashes back to her mother many times as she considers the differences between greenlandic and danish culture .
smilla ' s sense of snow wasn ' t what i was expecting . it was not so bad a book that i could fairly say that i was disappointed but i wasn ' t left satisfied after the reading experience either . first off the hero of the story is a half greenlander who thinks back on her greenland heritage . her knowledge of snow and ice , acquired in childhood , are important to the plot , but this is a book written by a dane . once we get into the exploration of issues around colonialism then it starts to feel a little c
møller , hans henrik ,
peter høeg or the sense of writing ,
in scandinavian studies , vol . 69 , winter 1997 , pp . 29–51 .
a writer with an unmistakable disdain for literary celebrity , peter h0eg is an enigmatic figure whose life and works , with one major exception , have remained somewhat obscure . the aura surrounding his international best - seller smilla’s sense of snow has largely overshadowed his other four books , none of which enjoyed the same degree of near - unanimous critical praise or commercial success . although he was hailed as a rising literary star when he published smilla’s sense of snow at the age of 34—at which point he had already published the novel forestilling om det tyvende arhundrede ( the history of danish dreams ) and the collection of stories fortallinger om natten ( tales of the night ) —h0eg has not published a novel since 1996 , when his kvinden og aben ( the woman and the ape ) was released to mixed reviews . as a result , his status within world literature is still rather ambiguous , although he remains very popular in his native denmark .
one snowy day in copenhagen , six - year - old isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop . the police pronounce it an accident . but isaiah ' s neighbour , smilla , an expert in the ways of snow and ice , suspects murder . she embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth , following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow .
as the neighbor of little isaiah and someone who naturally understands footprints in the snow , smilla never believes that this child accidentally fell off a roof . ( incidentally , one unsung genius behind the popularity of this thriller is the person who decided that its british title , ' ' miss smilla ' s feeling for snow , ' ' could use some alliterative improvement . ) she begins inquiring into the circumstances of his death even as she stumbles onto a conspiracy elaborate enough to recall john le carre .
photography is a fiction . it’s a frame of a film which hasn’t been made , or a line from a forgotten poem . i always create in camera as much as possible , because it is also about the experience of what is in front of you at the time .
a truly outlandish twist that would be more at home in a no - brainer hollywood action film than in what purports to be an intelligent adult thriller .
the smilla mega movie page provides evidence of the mechanic’s power with an array of videos , including the trailer and fan vids , dialogue and quotes from the film , promotional images , an interview , reviews , additional resources , a drink recipe ( a good alternative to that hot chocolate ! ) , posters , and a stunning set of screencaps .
perhaps the most profoundly felt theme running through smilla ' s sense of snow is that of alienation . when a people , or a person , lose ( s ) a sense of meaning in life or a separation from that which has formerly nurtured them , the result is both a cultural and personal sense of alienation . in many ways , smilla exemplifies both . clearly , smilla is alienated both from her father and danish society . she often pulls her telephone from its jack and disconnects her doorbell so that she does not have to interact with others in copenhagen . the root of this alienation is in her forcible transfer from greenland to copenhagen after the death of her mother . that she runs away more times than she can remember between the ages of seven and twelve speaks to this deeply felt sense of cultural isolation . by the time she is an adult , smilla has resigned herself to living at least partially within danish culture :
i no longer make an effort to keep europe or denmark at a distance . neither do i plead with them to stay . in some way they are part of my destiny . they come and go in my life . i have given up doing anything about it .
however , this is the voice of resignation , not integration ; even as an adult , smilla remains alienated from and unable to find meaning in denmark or europe .
the best movie i have seen for the month of march , ranks as an all time high . smilla is a star . the suspense will keep you on the edge of your chair . i can ' t believe that this film didn ' t get more awards , its a sleeper . other then the berlin international film festival i don ' t think it showed up anywhere else . the young boy played a good part . a must see must add to any collection , starts in greenland then to denmark , my type of film , one that shows anything but america . 5 stars . thank you .
in a segment almost too cool for human ears , we glide from sweet smell of success to elevator to the gallows to anatomy of a murder to breathless in this salute to jazz film scoring par excellence .
the notion of
colonialism ,
however , is tied up with much more than the history of one nation claiming another as a colony . rather , it is an exploration of the effects of this relationship on both the colonizer and the colonized . in smilla ' s sense of snow , the days of greenland as a colony have passed ; at the time of the writing of the novel , greenland was under home rule . however , two centuries of colonial exploitation , as well as the two decades of
modernization
that occurred in the 1950s and 1960s , have changed the way that both greenlanders and danes think and live .
the trailer for this was on a vhs copy of one of my favourite films back in the late 90s . couldn ' t tell you what the film was , i just know that the trailer for smilla is one of the trailer ' s i ' ve seen the most times in my life because of it . at no point during or after seeing that trailer was i remotely fussed about watching the film . my memory says it looked like the kind of film
old women
might like . of course i was about 15 so who the hell knows what i thought
old
was . anyway , i ' ve since sold the book in my retail career many times and even the book jacket looked a bit book club / white…
peter høeg was born in copenhagen , denmark . before becoming a writer , he worked variously as a sailor , ballet dancer , and actor . he published his first novel , a history of danish dreams ( 1988 ) , to positive reviews . however , it was smilla’s sense of snow ( 1992 ) , a million - copy best seller , that earned høeg immediate and international literary celebrity . his books have been published in more than th
h0eg’s seeming inability to please his most outspoken critics seems to stem from his unwillingness to accommodate the expectations of those who want him to write either conventional genre fictions or highbrow philosophical novels . h0eg is equally comfortable ( and interested in ) writing about the complexities of theories concerning the nature of time—a subject that shows up in most of his books—as he is making allusions to popular culture , from thrillers in the vein of john lecarre to b - movie science fiction like king kong . although this combination won him millions of readers in smilla’s sense of snow , it has not resulted in similarly broad acclaim for his subsequent efforts .
but the most seductive
sign
of all for smilla is her beloved snow . smilla authoritatively announces early on ,
jeg synes bedre om sne og is end om kaerligheden
(
i think more highly of snow and ice than love
) . equally authoritatively høeg cautioned readers not to trust her .
she should not be relied on , because she ' s hidding her sensitivity and feelings under a rough surface
( lyall ) . both statements are misleading , for it is not so much a matter of snow versus love , but of snow as smilla ' s disguised obsession with the loss of love . smilla herself makes the connection , if she disguises the nature of the loss , when , at the end of her reminiscence about her mother ' s intimate embrace , she muses ,
måske er jeg allerede dér begyndt at ønske at forstå isen . at ville forstå er at prøve at generobre noget vi har mistet
(
perhaps i had even then begun to want to understand the ice . to want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost
) .
zeal is a virtue when it is put into practice as service of others . the clever , cerebral , and reclusive heroine of smilla ' s sense of snow is a copenhagen scientist who cherishes her independence and privacy . the one exception to her preference to stay way from people is isaiah , a young eskimo neighbor , who wins his way into her heart . when he mysteriously falls to his death from their building ' s rooftop , smilla is convinced that he as murdered . using the same reserves of courage and tenacity that fueled her mother ' s career as an inuit hunter , she comes up against the unusual activities of a mining corporation headed by a nefarious man called tork ( richard harris ) .
peter høeg was born in copenhagen , denmark . before becoming a writer , he worked variously as a sailor , ballet dancer , and actor . he published his first novel , a history of danish dreams ( 1988 ) , to positive reviews . however , it was smilla’s sense of snow ( 1992 ) , a million - copy best seller , that earned høeg immediate and international literary celebrity . his books have been published in more than thirty countries .
it’s surprising to see a lot of people’s living spaces of a certain age – what they surround themselves with and how they decorate their houses . they’re like living museums . it’s often an incredible level of chaos and madness that they live amongst
for smilla snow is the substance that preserves form , like isaiah ' s tracks . it is the substance of connection , associated in her mind with winter , her mother ' s favorite season , and the visiting of others .
vinteren var en tid til samvaer , ikke til jordens undergang
(
winter was a time for community , not for the end of the world
) . snow is the substance of certainty . it is the substance of perfection . like all who mourn , smilla longs for something that can contain the essence of what is lost , keats ' s grecian urn , dinesen ' s blue vase . smilla has found it in her ability to imagine snow .
i den ydre verden vil der aldrig eksistere en fuldendt dannet snekrystal . men i vores bevidsthed ligger den glitrende og lydefri viden om den perfekte is
(
in the external world a perfectly formed snow crystal would never exist . but in our consciousness lies the glittering and flawless knowledge of perfect ice
) . smilla seems to find in the ice all that she longs for , life , wildness , beauty , change , and eternal permanence . nearing greenland , she describes in the most sensuous terms the creation of the ice cover :
but , of course , snow is as impermanent as life , the quintessence of impermanence . touched by the human hand it disappears , as suddenly and completely as smilla ' s mother . only in smilla ' s mind is it a constant . even in its physical construction it is made up of wholes and holes , as illusive a substance as smilla could have found for her passion , and thus , in essence , the perfect
sign
for her mother , both in her presence and her absence . it is the substance in which she is both to be lost and to be found . yet , as long as smilla continues to romanticize snow , she can avoid facing the loss that it hides . she need never lose again .
first , there is a lot of snow . a great deal of snow . snow on the ground . in the air . everywhere . and there is ice . and cold water . and icebergs . and even full - blown , life - sized glaciers . if the weather is warm where you are at the moment , it will feel much , much colder once the opening scene rolls by , so grab a blanket and some hot chocolate .
the term
genre
refers to the category of a given literary work in either form or content . in terms of content , certain genres carry with them certain conventions . for example , detective fiction requires both a crime and someone trying to solve the crime . thus , while a book such as smilla ' s sense of snow is clearly generically a novel , it does not easily fall into any one generic category in terms of content and convention . indeed , it is almost as if høeg is playing with the notion of genre itself in his creation of this novel .
the last section of the novel takes place on the ice of greenland . again , høeg evokes the bitter cold and the alien strangeness of the frozen land . smilla , however , finds herself on surer footing here . not only does she have the scientific knowledge of snow and ice that she has learned in europe , she has the intuitive knowledge of her upbringing . in the final desperate scene , it is smilla ' s familiarity with the setting that promises her survival :
she thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love . she lives in a world of numbers , science and memories - - a dark , exotic stranger in a strange land . and now smilla jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime . . . it happened in the copenhagen snow . a six - year - old boy , a greenlander like smilla , fell to his death from the top of his apartment building . while the boy ' s body is still warm , the police pronounce his death an accident . but smilla knows her young neighbor didn ' t fall from the roof on his own . soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow . for her dead neighbor , and for herself , she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies , revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes , where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice . . . .
kenneth lonergan wrote and directed the film
you can count on me ,
for which he won the waldo salt screenwriting award , the sundance film festival ' s top award for best screenwriting , and the new york film critics ' circle , l . a . film critics ' circle , writers guild of america , and national board of review awards for best screenplay . he was also nominated for an academy award for best original screenplay . lonergan ' s plays include
lobby hero ,
the waverly gallery
and
this is our youth .
his theater work has been performed in new york at naked angels , second stage , the atlantic theater company , and h . b . playwrights foundation . in los angeles his work has been staged at the coast theatre , and in london at the royal court theater and at the battersea playhouse .
my hunch , moonshadow , is that you likely have little or no experience of snow and ice . if you had , you might relate better to this book , and enjoy the near mystical sense that smilla has of it . but do try to soldier on , as this is an exceptionally good story . and no , it would not be fair to give away the ending to you . sorry . margaret ( less )
lagermann is a forensic medicine expert who first examines isaiah ' s body . he reveals to smilla that a muscle biopsy has been removed from the body sometime after the child ' s death .
was given an indifferent critical reception when it came out , much of which seemed based on the storys taking a turn into science - fiction at the ending ( an aspect that comes direct from the book ) , but it is a strong and underrated film that is worthy of reconsideration .
this cult classic has a lot of things going for it . miss smilla is a stylish , engaging heroine with terrific dress sense , dark wit , courage under fire and fluency in greenlandic . ( i believe it ' s west greenlandic if you care about that kind of thing ) . at one point , she performs an imaginative sex act that i ' ve never seen described in any other place . there ' s a brooding sense of menace and a weird conspiracy that gradually comes together . . . i don ' t know why i ' m so bothered by the fact that the stor
brendan gleeson most recently co - starred in steven spielberg ' s
ai : artificial intelligence
and is currently shooting anthony mingella ' s ' cold mountain . ' gleeson was born and raised in dublin where < br > he went to school in marino before joining the christian brothers at st . joseph ' s in fairview . < br > it was while at st . joseph ' s that he was first drawn < br > to the stage and screen thanks to the influence and encouragement he received from his teacher , pat grogan . after leaving school , gleeson joined the health board for a time , after which he returned to school and began studying at belcamp . he later taught there for ten years , during which time he acted in several productions , including
king of the castle
at the abbey theater and
home
with the passion machine company . in 1989 , < br > at the age of 34 , gleeson decided to try acting full time . he first attracted international attention with his performance in john boorman ' s film
the general ,
for which he won best actor from the boston society of film critics , the london film critics , and from the irish film and television association . gleeson ' s many other film credits include
far and away ,
braveheart ,
michael collins ,
i went down ,
the snapper ,
angela mooney ,
my life so far ,
wild about harry ,
mission impossible 2 ,
harrison ' s flower ,
lake placid
and most recently john boorman ' s film of john le carre ' s
the tailor of panama .