Two decades after their last collaboration, Marion Cotillard reunites with filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović for “The Ice Tower,” a fractured fable that lifts as much from the work of Hans Christian Andersen as from Hadžihalilović’s formative years.
Premiering in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, the 1970s-set film follows a young orphan who falls into an hypnotic — and soon reciprocated — obsession with a film star shooting an adaptation of Andersen’s “The Snow Queen.”
“All my films are fairy-tales,” says Hadžihalilović. “I don’t care to situate my stories in an everyday reality or a contemporary timeframe; whereas the storybook form comes naturally, allowing for poetry and escape.”
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