If you loved Return to Sender, try Smilla's Sense of Snow

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Both films are directed by Bille August, and they both carry the paranoid, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Return to Sender, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Smilla's Sense of Snow is

Copenhagen. Winter. A child's bootprint in the snow. A building superintendent’s son plummets from a rooftop, but a Greenlandic expatriate fixates on anomalies at the scene. Dark secrets fester, reaching back to a mining operation in the far north. A procedural for people who prefer glaciers to Columbo.

If you loved Return to Sender, try Smilla's Sense of Snow

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If you loved Return to Sender, try Smilla's Sense of Snow

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