Have you seen Snow Cake? It’s a 2006 film starring Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver. Weaver plays an autistic woman who loses her daughter in a car accident after she accepts a ride with Alan Rickman’s character, Alex. Alex goes to apologise to her for his part in the accident and ends up staying a lot longer than he planned.
I really liked this movie. Not only does Weaver do a truly magnificent (and often quite amusing) job of portraying Linda, but Rickman is equally as powerful, playing the sad and lonely Alex, a man on a journey to escape the demons of his past – a tried and true formula by now, but you can’t deny that it works. Given the subject matter, the movie could’ve easily become sickly sweet and overly maudlin, but the script carries enough dark humour and the acting is so good that it remains realistic and relatively unsentimental.
I won’t give away any more of the movie, but I will say this – I love Alan Rickman. It’s all that sensitive brooding melancholy, and don’t lets be forgetting that voice. Nobody says ‘fuck’ quite like Alan Rickman.
I discovered after a quick wiki visit that Broken Social Scene scored the movie, but the track that stood out for me was Stereophonics‘ ‘Just Looking’. Have a listen below.
Image courtesy of Lame Movies, who actually gave it a top review, which is just as well because I would’ve thought Nicholas Spark movies belonged more in that category myself. Ugh. Why do they keep making those??
I already like this blog a lot, but you saying that you love Alan Rickman has done it for me – you’re a legend.
You’re right, Agnes – no one does say ‘fuck’ like Alan Rickman. I reckon he gets it put into his contracts that he’s got to say at least one otherwise it’s no deal. On ‘Snow Cake’ – yeah, a nice movie. And, you’re right, Sigourney Weaver does a mighty job of playing an autistic woman. She really is under-rated – I can’t think of a movie that she’s in that I haven’t liked. And Broken Social Scene and their various offshoots are legends. Nice post alround.
Snow Cake is my favourite Alan Rickman film, followed by Blow Dry. He’s a treasure to film/theatre and the world in general.
Ha! Thanks Joe!
Thanks for your comments psyfic. I haven’t seen Blow Dry – I will add it to my list! Thanks for stopping by.
I agree re Sigourney being underrated Nigel, she’s been fantastic in everything I’ve seen as well. Thanks for your nice words also!
ah, alan rickman. have you ever seen dogma? tee-hee. probably not his favorite role, but too funny to miss.
and bss, well, i think you know how i feel about bss. i will definitely have to hunt this film down.
I haven’t seen Dogma either! I obviously need to update my Alan Rickman viewing list.
Dogma, for all the Kevin Smith hatred, is really bloody good in my opinion. And psyfic, isn’t ‘Blow Dry’ the one set in Yorkshire about hairdressers? Doesn’t Josh Hartnett do one of the all-time worst English accents in that?