The Ice Tower (2025)
- Original title
- La Tour de glace
- Directed by
- Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film
- Country
- Germany, France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In the 1970s, a runaway teenage orphan becomes infatuated with an actress who is playing the Snow Queen in a film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. The orphan's fascination grows as she enters the actress's world, mixing reality with the fantasy of the film they are making.
dreamlikevisually lushslow-burnmelancholicmoodyetherealcerebralunsettling
What happens
The Ice Tower (French: La Tour de glace) is a 2025 fantasy drama film directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović from a screenplay she co-wrote with Geoff Cox. Set in the 1970s, it stars Marion Cotillard as an actress who is shooting a film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen, in which she plays the title character, and Clara Pacini as a runaway teenage orphan who becomes infatuated with the actress. The cast also includes August Diehl and Gaspar Noé in supporting roles. A co-production between France, Germany and Italy, the film had its world premiere at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on 16 February 2025, where it won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. The Ice Tower received generally positive reviews from critics. It was ranked number 18 on Sight and Sound's list of "50 best films of 2025", and it also won the awards for Best Film and Best Production Design at the 2025 Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival, and the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award at the 2025 San Sebastián Film Festival. It was released theatrically in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 17 September 2025, and in Germany by Grandfilm on 18 December 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Snow White (1959)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.