Marion Kotalard casts a talisman
Wonderful and ice on an equal lukewarm scale, “The Ice Tower” from the Lucile Hadilelilović is all only artistic feelings, and it is a fairy tale in the seventies of the last century on a screen actress that represents a possible dangerous talisman. She is installed by an actress, Marion Cotillard, who has one of the great faces, and a classic development with the beauty of Nueri glamorous outside the interface. They wore a wonderful way with a cut created by Hans Christian Andersen: Boufour, far -fetch, but far -fetch, but it is far -reaching, but it is far away August, but wounded.
It was wonderfully filmed in France and northern Italy by film photographer Jonathan Ricburg – It is really a more surprising movie so far to be shown in 2025 in Berlinaly From a mood in the form of feature. But those who want to be identified by the cinema, because this film really puts you in a state In the seventies, led by a mysterious star.
HADžIHALILOVIć and Geoff Cox script touched on the fundamentals of “The Snow Snow Queen” in Hans Christian Andersen to a less legendary but more contemporary story about the power and withdrawal of strong. The new expatriate Clara Bakini plays the role of Jin, a 16 -year -old Tartam after her mother’s death, which is the only memory in the form of a handful of beads that were shattered by the mother’s body. It has been transferred to a high orphaned house in the mountains – and where the “Ice Tower” is really not really concerned, as is the case in the seventies of the last century, the preparation feels strongly time and space. Nevertheless, Jin ends in escape, as a jungle of ice ski first stumbles with a woman named Bianca to the “Five Hour” by a child of Aphrodite. Or was it already appointed in the seventies, or just a cinematic space aimed at provoking the time period?
Jin, which we are supposed to understand as cautious and slightly protected in a face indicating that she does not indicate that she has not seen much life at all, is difficult to skipper and sex that she is likely to enjoy. Like the 2004 “innocence” from Hadžihalilović, where she was appointed to an internal school of girls, where new students are brought inside the coffins, the “The Ice Tower” is in her heart (and not that she has a lot) a story about sexual life and the female agency. So when Jin, who is now going by Bianca, ends in a film studio where the production of “Snow Queen” from Hans Christian Andersen, it is difficult to know if her charm to Cristina (Cotillard) is more sexual or a mother -girl. It might be both.
Christina and Jin’s first introduction is a frightening funny scene that announces what the mirror hall will be “ice tower”, and the extent that the Hans Christian Andersen’s tale framing device is actually about the mirror, which is used here HadžiHalilović the camera instead of. Jin is transported through an opening in the wall where she was sleeping to see the floating ethereal Christina while her snow falls on it, just to be this floating number just an actress, to fall snow to be a fake films collection, as the director calls the pieces and what Jin was watching in reality was a movie he took.
The following is Thuan is harmful between Christina/Queen of Snow and Jane/Bianca, who tops her relationship with the exciting but hovering near the guidance, at first, as soon as Christina begins taking a gene under her wing, and Jean is rising. Small additions to the group. Their relationship is never crystallized to anything tangible, which maintains the “ice tower” firmly in the mood space in the mood space rather than anything murodrami gives it a bit in terms of emotion.
At one time, Christina Jin told that they could be together forever, or they leave tomorrow and never look back, but Jin is heading to the width while staring at a slope, and putting a feeling of death on the place where their dynamism is heading. In another, Christina Jean calls for a drink only to distort her on the promise completely, leaving Jin standing alone in the cold and began to feel the illusion that she signed about the extent of this woman’s interest in her already. Their relationship takes a role towards sexual assault, and remembers a previous moment in the film, where a gene is captured by the road by a man in a car that promised to drop it “after a short distortion.” The world of adults is a dangerous world.
Regarding the mood, tone, manufacturing and surfaces, “The Ice Tower” is amazing, it is filmed with Cinemascope framing that brings a very dramatic strength to many long close, especially with Cristina monitored Delez her movie. The pictorial music created with Oondes Martenot, an electronic tool like thermin, creates a dream -like talisman that only adds to the charm of the movie. The adult and separate shows are separated, the dominant sleeping feelings of this film will not be for anyone looking for a story, but “The Ice Tower” casts a creeping talisman flowing and even deepening the mind for a long time after its end. You just do the best seizures.
Row: B+
The “The Ice Tower” was first shown at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. She is currently seeking to distribute us.
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