Movies that break the fourth wall tend to be either fun little romps —think “Deadpool” and its sequel— or insufferably smug exercises in tediousness and supposed cleverness. A film that prides itself in being almost 100% self-aware, making its characters actually interact with the screenwriter of their story, are at risk of belonging to the second group —but thankfully, Adolfo Kolmerer and William James’ “Snowflake” (originally called “Schneeflöckchen”) manages to avoid most of the pitfalls a picture of this kind might fall into. Fun and incredibly violent, “Snowflake” manages to be totally self-aware while never contradicting its own internal logic —quite a challenge, considering the way other, lesser productions have tried to do similar things, and failed miserably. The film intertwines two story threads, and...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...