Can one outrun destiny by stepping on the gas? Does one confront it head-on? Or should one simply accept the inevitable, if such a thing even exists? These are the questions that director Mark Fergus poses with panache in First Snow, his creepy debut feature. Guy Pearce-no stranger to mind-tweaking fare after his star turn in Memento-plays salesman Jimmy Starks, who is convinced that he is being stalked by fate after a psychic tells him that he will die soon.
