Review of Snow Angels (2007) by Shane R — 02 Oct 2008
"Snow Angels," as seen from a surface level, is not the film I imagined David Gordon Green desired to make. The style so rich in his other films has been neutered here in a bizarre concoction that struggles to respire, forced to alternate between esoteric and conventional.
Itâ??s a melodrama, make no mistake. But it could have been a great melodrama. Now, should I begrudge the director for branching out into a more accessible genre of independent film? Of course not. But Green himself is reticent, teetering between a straight family drama and a mosaic of small town malaise.
Little snippets of greatness shine through but find themselves suffocated by the dense underpinnings of a typical suburban tragedy. It may just be the material which never quite unites its three relationships in the throws of fragile human vicissitudes.
And as such, the film reaches an emotional climax of devastating violence that it never truly earns.
This review of Snow Angels (2007) was written by Shane R on 02 Oct 2008.
Snow Angels has generally received positive reviews.
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