2025 · fantasy · drama
The Ice Tower
Directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović1h 58m2025
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
Our read: The Ice Tower (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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