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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. Afte...

Directed By: Tomasz Thomson

Written By: Tomasz Thomson

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Snowman's Land

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he reluctantly takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. Afte...

Directed By: Tomasz Thomson

Written By: Tomasz Thomson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
52
17% Positive
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67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
52
17% Positive
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67% Mixed
4 Reviews
17% Negative
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63
Sep 26, 2012
I can see what Thomson is getting at and even sort of appreciate it at times; the movie isn't boring, but it meanders and loses track of plot threads. Any feelings we have for the characters is muted because they all richly deserve to die at one another's hands.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 14, 2012
Despite on-point performances (especially from the hilarious Mr. Wodianka), the story (by Tomasz Thomson, who also directs) is too pitted with holes and loose ends to permit the film a bump from meh to marvelous.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
58
Sep 15, 2012
It is a credit to Snowman's Land that it's plot twists are, for the most part, not entirely predictable, nor do they ever come across as far-fetched.
By Gabe Toro FULL REVIEW
58
Sep 13, 2012
Tonally, Snowman's Land feels like a German throwback to a '90s indie, but without the energy-the pacing is languid to the point of aimlessness.
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40
Sep 13, 2012
The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately feel too calculated-the strained overlay of sensationalism onto a desiccated canvas.
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38
Sep 16, 2012
A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny.
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Production Company Noirfilm Filmproduktion
Release Date Sep 14, 2012
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/Snowmans-Land/276303881420?ref=ts
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Awards

Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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