Saturday, April 28 - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main : Director: Marc Evans   Deeply affecting and quirky to the core, Snow Cake combines childlike wonder with matters of life and death to surprising effect. A taciturn Englishman recently freed from prison, Alex (Alan Rickman) is driving through Ontario when he begrudgingly picks up the vivacious 19-year-old hitchhiker Vivienne (Emily Hampshire).

Wracked with guilt when she dies in car accident from which he walks away unscathed, he goes to the frozen backwater of Wawa, Ontario, to make amends to her mother, the attractive Linda (Sigourney Weaver), a high-gear autistic woman. After listening to her rapid-fire proclamations, he decides to stay to help with the funeral. In what becomes a lengthy sojourn he develops a relationship with a neighbor, Maggie (Carrie-Anne Moss) to avoid town gossip and evade the suspicious stares.  As Alex, who lost his own son in a similarly tragic way, moves towards a reconciliation with his past, he discovers the unique world Vivienne and her mother’s unusual lifestyle they created together, twinkling lights, backyard trampoline antics, and giddy games of Scrabble. The warm, expansive soundtrack of Canadian indie-pop royalty, "Broken Social Scene,"  balances the potential loneliness of Wawa’s icy environs. "In the hands of director Marc Evans, reality’s cold crunch becomes an enchanted dream, singing with possibility,”  (Tribeca Film Fest).

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Cast: Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire

Canada/UK, 112 minutes, 2006, 35mm.

Presented by: Consulate General of Canada

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