The Ice Tower' is full of brilliantly conceived and rendered pathways that end in cul-de-sacs; it is beguiling, but hardly satisfying.

A film set is no place for little girls. In the fairytale-adjacent world of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s frigid dark fantasy "The Ice Tower," an orphan runs away from her foster home and takes refuge in the basement of a movie studio,

Berlin: Glacial and gorgeously languid, Hadžihalilović's silver-screen fairy tale is a soothing cinematic ASMR that's all art-film-only vibes.

Marion Cotillard shared that, while she plays the enigmatic Cristina in her film The Ice Tower (‘ La Tour de Grace ’), she found herself intimidated by her young co-star Clara Pacini as the pair prepared to work on the movie. Cotillard, who won an Oscar in 2008 for her role of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, said at the Berlinale Film Festival:

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.

The latest feature from French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic ('Earwig,' 'Evolution') follows an orphaned teenage girl who stumbles into a haunting real-world fable.