The Ice Tower (2025)
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović Run Time: 118 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025 Language: French
Starring: August Diehl, Clara Pacini, Gaspar Noé, Marine Gesbert, Marion Cotillard
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Language: French, English
About the film:
1970s. From her high mountain village, 15-year-old Jeanne dreams of leaving her childhood orphanage and discovering the world. Fleeing to the city of lights, she finds refuge in a shed. In the morning, the Snow Queen appears to her, dazzling. The shed turns out to be a studio where a film adapted from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Snow Queen, is being shot. Cristina, the star, who embodies the Queen, reigns supreme on the set. Fascinated by this cruel woman with a disturbing charm, both powerful and vulnerable, Jeanne becomes her protege and her confidante as the trap closes in on her.
About the filmmaker:
Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović is a French director and screenwriter of Bosnian descent known for her dreamlike, unsettling work. She studied art history and film at IDHEC (now La Fémis). Her early short “La Bouche de Jean-Pierre” premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 1996. Her feature films Innocence (2004), Evolution (2015), and Earwig (2021) have earned critical acclaim for their visual beauty, psychological intensity, and exploration of childhood, identity, and isolation. Her latest film The Ice Tower (2025) continues her distinctive style and deepening mastery of eerie, atmospheric storytelling.
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