Snow White (2005)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

How sad is this?

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

"Snow White" is a Swiss/Austrian co-production that resulted in a 2005 film written and directed by a filmmaker who goes by the alias of Samir and is apparently somewhat known in Switzerland. There are also some French-language parts in here, but most of the film is in German or Swiss German. This movie had its 10th anniversary last year and runs for almost two hours. The lead actress is the absolutely stunning Julie Fournier as you can see from the title photo here on IMDb. She plays a character who struggles a lot in life due to difficulties in finding out what she wants, in terms of private and professional life, and most of all because of permanent drug abuse. Sadly, her friends aren't exactly a help as they keep doing drugs all the time with her. But then, strangely enough, a man appears and he is a rock musician who, because of experiences in his family, is strictly against drugs now, despite his profession and he may be the light at the end of the tunnel for our Snow White here. He is played by Carlos Leal and Leal achieved a decent deal of awards recognition for his performance here. I think he was pretty good, but so was Fournier. I personally think she is more than just a pretty face. Kinda sucks to see her career has not really been that great in the least decade. But back to this film here. The reason why I still give this one not that many stars is because I was not impressed with any of the supporting performances. If you do without some of the less influential characters, you easily could have kept this film at 95-100 minutes and it would have been an even more essential and more focused outcome. Admittedly, there are sequences in here when the film drags and honestly two decent lead performances alone are not enough to let me recommend the watch here, if everything else is mediocre or even weak. Admittedly without Fournier or Leal playing the core characters, it would have been way worse. No idea why the actress who played Snow White's best friend (and who was very generic and forgettable) got some awards recognition as well, but the lead actress doesn't. Oh well, cannot come up with an explanation for this. I myself think overall the weak outweighs the strong and there is more negative in this film than positive. As a consequence, i cannot recommend the watch here, even if I would have loved to.

Nico (Julie Fournier) is a spoiled-but-troubled brat, and Swiss indie musician Paco (Carlos Leal) is her one chance to escape the world of wealthy weasels she has grown up in. Now this girl, why haven't I seen her before? Why isn't she on the covers of magazines? Maybe she is, but only in Switzerland? Either way, Julie Fournier is the most beautiful young actress I have seen in a long time, and, believe me, check out rising female stars is pretty much all I do. A good-looking girl makes for a good-looking movie: swimsuits, parties, dancing, all with a somewhat 1980s feel, down to the visual gadgetry: split screen, patchwork interlace, spaghetti preparation time-lapsed into a three-second sequence. The same goes for subject matter. It's all there, the coke and the rap and the booze and the pain. What you see is what you get, and it's watchable enough as it is, although there is probably a more substantial movie here, struggling to get out. Go see it if you liked "Tempo" (1996/II). Typical line: "I'm too cranked up on coke to get laid. Let's smoke some pot first."

I saw this piece in Dark Nights Film Festival almost by accident but I'm true to my feelings when I say I'm so very glad that I did. The piece itself has it all what I would look for in a movie - catching photography that makes you forget everything else and really connect to the movie, great ((acting)) by which I mean the storyline being so somehow close to the heart that it doesn't even feel like the characters are acting out parts, amazingly soulful touch of music background all through. I would advise anyone who have ever had a deep emotional bonding in a relationship to go see this one. I felt for the main characters all the way through and the story reminded me of the beauty of having and losing in a relationship. This movie has incredible warmth to bond with and at the same time it has the sweetly cold takes that show you the beauty of loss and losing control. My words can't do justice for this one - You just have to see it for yourself.

Snow White is in my opinion a bad movie on an artistic point of view. The plot is pretty much foreseeable, the characters are stereotypes, the editing too exaggerated. Anyway, the movie seems not to have a lot of artistic ambitions. Instead, I think this is a straight commercial thing. Including a character from the french part of Switzerland (the actor IS the leader of the band he is touring with in the movie - the band's called SENS UNIK) seems to aim to a larger audience. A straight German-swiss movie would not have sold in the french part - and vice versa. What really got on my nerves were the product placements all over the movie. Sometines scenes remembered of advertisement clips! I also think the topic of "young people taking drugs without any other targets in their lives" is a wide spread reality in Zurich. Therefore, it should be elaborated with more care. I hope Samir got enough money with Snow White, in order that his next movie is gonna show his true artistic skills.