Film Review: THE SNOWMAN (USA 2017) **

Director Tomas Alfredson (the original LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and SOLDIER, TAILER, TINKER SPY) makes sure the film’s Norwegian setting (though he is Swede) is known from the very start.  From the wintry long windy roads of Norway, the film shifts focus to the statues in Vogel Park in Oslo, before the film reveals key locations of Oslo and Bergen (on the west coast).   As snow is perpetually on the ground, it is assumed it is close to the winter months, which explains the reason the sun is seldom seen – making the film more eerie for its appropriate…