2006 · drama
Snow Cake
Directed by Marc Evans1h 52m2006
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
Our read: Snow Cake (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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How Snow Cake feels to watch.
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“You want a tender Canadian drama about grief, autism, and unlikely small-town connection.”
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