Snow Cake

I wasn't looking forward to seeing this film and got dragged along at the last minute - I knew it was going to be emotionally heavy and it was. I must say though that I think it's brilliant; at one... Full review

I saw Snow Cake last night at the Toronto Film Festival.The Film is excellent - I wouldn't change a frame. It is beautifully directed and full of refined touches - great script - great score- and the acting by Rickman... Full review

This film is just a beautiful story that made me laugh and cry. Sigourney was just fantastic, have never seen her better. I was so lucky to meet her in Edinburgh where she did a 'reel life' interview about her... Full review

If you think this is one of those dull and oh-so-PC movies about autistic people, think again! Nothing could be further from the reality. 'Snow Cake', much to my surprise and delight, turned out to be an exhilarating, sexy, poignant,... Full review

Many people have very warped ideas of Autism and the way it changes peoples lives. This film really shows how wrongly people can judge someone just on the fact the have a label of 'autistic'. The writer has definitely showed... Full review

Snow Flake is a tale of insulated lives thrown into contact, of insights that that are almost (but not quite) incommunicable, of the power of unusual friendships, of people defying what is expected of them and sometimes of what they... Full review

I was able to see this as part of the recent Autism Cymru conference, and can honestly say that this is one of the best films I have seen for years. It somehow maintains a balance between the drama, the... Full review

I have just come back from the screening of Snow Cake at the Hong Kong Film Festival, it is one of the two closing films. I have to say, I didn't expect much from this film at first, or perhaps... Full review

i just went to see this film in the Belfast film festival. it was possibly one of the most beautiful films i have ever seen. as a self confessed Rickman obsessive i was always going to see the film but... Full review

I saw this at the opening of the Berlinale, and I liked it a lot.Simple story, solid acting, lovable characters. there are moments to make u cry and laugh. The audience and the German Press generally receive it very well.... Full review

Snow Cake is blessed with a wonderful screenplay as its starting point, but it is executed with such a deft set of performances, and with such meticulous direction, that it surpasses its premise. But there's so much more to this film than could be written here; each scene is invested with emotional payloads, striking observations and a wry humour that makes it possible to label the film as upbeat, despite its contents. ... Full Review

The main problem with Snow Cake is one that could hardly be avoided. ... Full Review

By Joe Williams POST-DISPATCH FILM CRITIC 06/08/2007 As in "I Am Sam," "Snow Cake" is virtually impossible to watch without remembering that it's a famous actor who is tugging at our heartstrings. That's how she initially responds to Alex (Alan Rickman), a mournful stranger who arrives at Linda's house to tell her about his role in a fatal car accident. ... Full Review

The small Canadian drama "Snow Cake " prompts many emotions, not least of which is gratitude for temporarily freeing this great, undersung actor from the bondage of Severus Snape . The performance is brave, difficult, inventive, meticulously researched, fully felt. ... Full Review

Between Alan Rickman's thoughtful interpretation of the emotionally bludgeoned and Sigourney Weaver's studied performance of the autistic, this film is well worth the watching. Pell's great screenplay portrays the two side by side and the audience wins. ... Full Review

Reviewer: Anonymous (17 years old), Date: September 19, 2007 I say: One of my favorite movies ever...I loved this movie, definitely a make you think kind of movie. ... Full Article

My take on Season 1 of "Bones" was that it was basically a show about self-hating geeks. Almost every other episode had at least one self-confessed lab rat wondering about their chosen profession and whether or not they were too ... Full Article

Snow Cake , a middling but watchably snowy and showy melodrama from last spring's Florida Film Festival, will split the weekend's showing with the not-quite-but-almost-puerile Arctic Tale . of Sigourney W. playing a mentally-off mom. ... Full Article

Posted Jul 6th 2007 1:01PM by Kim Voynar Filed under: Drama , Independent , IFC , Seattle , The Weinstein Co. , Oscar Watch , Cinematical Indie It seems like an eternity since I first saw Snow Cake , starring... ... Full Article

Alan Rickman is a British actor who can segue effortlessly as Professor Skape in the Harry Potter franchise, to a collection of diverse characters in the likes of the original Die Hard, Love Actually, Truly, Madly, Deeply, Sense and Sensibility... ... Full Article

When portraying someone with a mental disorder, there's a fine line between inspired (Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man ) and inexplicable (Rosie O'Donnell in Riding the Bus With My Sister ). ... Full Article