Glacial murder mystery, unfluidly adapted from the touted Peter Hoeg novel. The questions are sometimes tantalizing ("Why would somebody shove a biopsy needle into a dead child?"). The pursuit of answers, behind the uninflected performance of Julia Ormond as the Nancy Drew amateur sleuth, is consistently tedious -- even when it crosses over into the realm of science fiction; into, more precisely, the Lair of the Alien Worm. No joke. With Gabriel Byrne, Robert Loggia, Richard Harris, and Vanessa Redgrave; directed by Bille August. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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