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Marion Cotillard and Lucile Hadžihalilović Salute Actors and Artifice in Fractured Fairy Tale ‘The Ice Tower’
Cotillard plays a regal movie star in Hadzihalilovic's 1970s-set fairy-tale about filmmaking.
“We didn’t have access to the internet, of course, and we don’t show any television or print media in the film — and that was essential in order to believe in the strength and power of actors and images, and the kinds of mysteries they hold. Pursuant to that goal, Hadžihalilović and D.P Jonathan Ricquebourg (“The Taste of Things”) aimed for a mise-en-scène so meticulous that each shot was almost fetishistic about aestheticizing artifice; and unlike most projects about the magic of moviemaking, here that otherworldly glow also bathed the soundstage corridors and sets-in-construction. Eagle-eyed viewers might even notice one familiar face made all-but-unrecognizable, with Hadžihalilović’s longtime collaborator Gaspar Noé playing the film-within-a-film’s beleaguered helmer.
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