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Snow Falling On Cedars

 

USA 1998, 133 minutes
Dir. Scott Hicks
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Crime

Topics: Period 1950s.

 

Aroview: The seemingly perfect conjunction of David Guterson's best-selling novel and dir. Hicks (SHINE), results in a technically magnificent, but thoroughly familiar murder-drama set in the Pacific Northwest of America in the 1950s.

Ethan Hawke leads as a WWII war-hero entangled in accusations leveled against a Japanese man who happens to be married to a wartime lover. However, even the presence of Sam Shepard, Max Von Sydow and Youki Kudoh cannot prevent all the sensitively rendered opalescent light falling on a tale that scarcely matches the brilliance of its crafting.

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  • deleted scenes
  • English subtitles for the hearing impaired
  • trailers
 

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