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‘The Ice Tower’ Review: Marion Cotillard Plays an Icy Screen Queen in a Stylish and Strangely Mind-Numbing Fairy Tale
Reteaming with her 'Innocence' star, Lucile Hadzihalilovic delves once again into the fragile world where children are corrupted by predatory adults.
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, finding herself drawn to the production — and its star, played by Marion Cotillard — the way a child in a Hans Christen Anderson story might be lured into the clutches of a wicked enchantress. At once dazzling and dull, “The Ice Tower” breaks from this pattern in that we meet young Jeanne (Clara Pacini) the day before she manages to escape her foster home, after which, it’ll be her decision how she chooses to exercise her freedom. In “Eargwig,” she lulled us into a suspended state of almost-slumber with a long, monotonous train ride, and here, the tinkling score, the sparkling lights and the prismatic motif (cast by a crystal ornament snatched from Cristina’s costume) all serve to hypnotize.
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