Snow Falling on Cedars
First screened in January 2020
Director: Scott Hicks. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Yuki Kudoh, Rick Yune, Max von Sydow, Eric Thal, Sam Shepard, Richard Jenkins, Reeve Carney, Anne Suzuki, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Arija Bareikis, James Rebhorn, James Cromwell, Daniel von Bargen, Celia Weston, Caroline Kava, Akira Takayama, Ako, Zak Orth, Saemi Nakamura, Mika Fujii, Seiji Inouye, Max Wright, Jan Rubeš, Sheila Moore, Željko Ivanek. Screenplay: Ronald Bass and Scott Hicks (based on the novel by David Guterson). Twitter Capsule:
Familiar problem of focusing on needless protagonist. Pristinely photographed, but why? It's a rough story.
VOR:②
Writers and editors attempt quite a bit, but muddled execution connotes overreach rather than epic sweep. Failure to interrogate style or politics of POV.
