Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Directed by Scott Hicks
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
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Until the somewhat deflated ending, the film bounces along wittily enough, with clever nods to Herbie the Love Bug, Jodie Foster, and Good Will Hunting, as well as what is doubtless the best punch line ever occasioned by Snow Falling on Cedars.
The use of 1999's " Snow Falling on Cedars " as the payoff to one ongoing story point is an unexpected comic high point."Horrible…
Director Scott Hicks (Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars and No Reservations) attempts to distract with pretty montages and long shots of orange sunrises and red sunsets over the bayou.
Director Scott Hicks ("Shine," "Snow Falling on Cedars," "Hearts in Atlantis," "No Reservations") uses the full bag of tricks.
As long as director Scott Hicks ("Shine," "Snow Falling on Cedars") puts these two through their inevitable romantic paces -- in perfectly lit, artfully distressed environments -- the movie more or less sells its disposable soul-mate fantasy.
Directed by Scott Hicks (Snow Falling on Cedars, No Reservations, Shine), the latest offering fits perfectly into the Sparksian cinematic repertoire: It features a young, good-looking couple—this time played by Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling—who are kept apart by life’s circumstances.
In fact, that is exactly what happens, and it is one-half of the reason that The Lucky One sucks as a romantic drama, assuming that we can accuse the actors of being cumulatively everything that is wrong with the movie, while ignoring the cliché-spouting screenplay adapted by Will Fetters - whose last job at trying to get a dubious teenybopper to grow up into leading manhood was the R-Patz 9/11 hatchet job Remember Me - or the stiff, pacey direction by Scott Hicks, the manhandler of such leaden dramas as Snow Falling on Cedars and Hearts in Atlantis , or the snoozy landscape cinematography of Ala Kivilo, who renders the Lousiana woods in the same training-wheels sun-kissed aesthetic he employed in The Blind Side .
Director Scott Hicks (“Shine”, “Snow Falling on Cedars”) lifts this material above the “Dear John”-“Message in a Bottle”-“Last Song” source author, holding his revelations in reserve, trying to maintain mystery about Beth and Logan, even though they’re more character types than characters.
As the chapters of the story are told, Tarantino and veteran cinematographer Robert Richardson (who lensed the beautifully shot, though sterile, “Snow Falling On Cedars”) give each segment its own unique look and style.