{"id":731413,"date":"2025-11-24T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=731413"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:53:02","slug":"the-ice-tower-a-dark-fairytale-about-the-dangers-of-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=731413","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Tower, a dark fairytale about the dangers of obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/film-tv\/article\/69133\/1\/the-ice-tower-marion-cotillard-lucile-hadzihalilovic-director-interview\" data-article-id=\"69133\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img no-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"2.39\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LaTourDeGlace_Photogramme_0018\" class=\"img\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1431364-1.jpg\" width=\"2048\" title=\"1431364-1\"><\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><span class=\"month\">November<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"24\">24,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2025<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - film-tv\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/film-tv\">Film &amp; 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You feel like you\u2019re inside the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 deploys the word \u201cdream\u201d, her films tend to skew closer to nightmares. In 2004\u2019s <em>Innocence<\/em>, six-year-old girls arrive via coffin to a secluded forest where they\u2019re imprisoned and taught ballet by Marion Cotillard. In 2015\u2019s <em>Evolution<\/em>, young boys with amnesia are rewired to give birth through caesarean sections. More recently, 2021\u2019s <em>Earwig<\/em> depicts a 10-year-old girl, Mia, who\u2019s locked away because her teeth are made of ice.<\/p>\n<p>Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107\u2019s fourth film, <em>The Ice Tower<\/em>, which she co-wrote with Geoff Cox, is so chilling and filled with glassy images that it may as well be set inside Mia\u2019s teeth. When a 14-year-old orphan, Jeanne (Clara Pacini), runs away from her cramped home and steals a stranger\u2019s wallet, she uses the new ID to sneak onto a film set and befriend the star. The production she stumbles upon is an adaptation of <em>The Ice Queen<\/em> starring a demanding diva, Cristina (Marion Cotillard), and helmed by a handsy director, Dino (Gaspar No\u00e9 in a wig).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"src-youtube video-container embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"media-youtube\" data-id=\"TajSHMLwhQU\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder height=\"422\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TajSHMLwhQU\" webkitallowfullscreen width=\"750\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>It\u2019s thus another story by Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 about children in peril. \u201cMy films are always about the same type of girl, I suppose,\u201d she says. \u201cWell, Jeanne has teeth [unlike Mia]. But they\u2019re orphans in a mysterious adult world.\u201d While Jeanne is 14, Pacini, a first-time actor, was 22 during the shoot. (At other points during the interview, Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 refers to Jeanne as 13, 14, 15, and 16, so it\u2019s not an exact science.) \u201cClara is, and looks, much older than Jeanne. It works, because we understand why Jeanne wants to run away from her cocoon, this children\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After falling asleep on the set, Jeanne, who\u2019s pretending to be an adult called Bianca, is mistaken for an extra. The power imbalance between her and Cristina starts from their opening interaction: sparkling in her Ice Queen costume, Cristina caresses the girl\u2019s face when no one\u2019s looking. On second viewing, Cristina\u2019s sinister undertones are more apparent. Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 notes: \u201cThe first time Cristina asks Jeanne to come to her room, she says, \u2018Don\u2019t be afraid. I\u2019m not going to eat you.\u2019 But then she tries to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the relationship develops, it\u2019s unclear whether their bond is familial, sexual or romantic. Jeanne is searching for a mother figure but is also in awe of Cristina, who is, let\u2019s remember, played by Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. Conversely, Cristina imagines Jeanne as the younger version of herself. When they kiss, it\u2019s more like an interaction from a vampire horror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCristina\u2019s using her physical seduction,\u201d says Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107. \u201cBut it\u2019s not only about having sex with a girl. It\u2019s not so sexual for me. It\u2019s more that she loves how she looks in this girl\u2019s eyes. It\u2019s like she\u2019s looking at herself in a mirror. And then because Jeanne wants something that she can\u2019t give \u2013 to be a mother \u2013 she freaks out.\u201d Cristina\u2019s eventual actions, she says, are impulsive, not calculated. \u201cMe and Geoff wanted it to be a surprise \u2013 even to us. Jeanne says it herself: this world makes Cristina totally crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Until the 80s, you still had this attraction for images on the screen. You could believe in the magic and aura of an actress like Cristina. But now, it seems so banal<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>Utterly spellbinding, <em>The Ice Tower<\/em> is best-watched in the front row of a cinema, or, if it has to be on a device, then in total darkness with the screen pressed against your face. Shadows and piercing lights are diligently angled by mirrors and glass sculptures; snowy surfaces overwhelm the frame, except for occasional drops of blood, a lit cigarette, or a crow that adores biting people\u2019s faces. With scale models, Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 manipulates the size of her characters: Jeanne steps across miniatures; the girl\u2019s eyeball at one point appears to be larger than Cristina\u2019s sleeping body.<\/p>\n<p>Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 picked the 1970s setting for how the decade romanticised movie stars. Jeanne flicks through glossy magazine profiles of Cristina, learning her traumatic backstory for the first time. In an era before Instagram, it\u2019s likely that Jeanne has little idea what a film set looks like, or the concept of watching dailies with a film crew. \u201cUntil the 80s, you still had this attraction for images on the screen,\u201d says Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107. \u201cYou could believe in the magic and aura of an actress like Cristina. But now, it seems so banal. Everybody knows everything today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She imagined the character of Dino to be the equivalent of Mario Bava or Jean Cocteau. \u201cBut they\u2019re both dead. So I thought of casting Guillermo del Toro, because I know him a little bit, and I know he likes my films. You\u2019d believe that Guillermo would make this kind of film.\u201d She then worried that del Toro would be too busy to spend multiple days shooting what would amount to minimal screen time. \u201cThis is why I thought of Gaspar [No\u00e9]: it wouldn\u2019t be complicated to ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"e712478f-d048-4baa-a7be-b39f00bbef15\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/1\/1431361.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"2.39\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ice Tower\" class=\"img\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1431361.jpg\" width=\"2048\" title=\"1431361\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">The Ice Tower<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>No\u00e9 is Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107\u2019s real-life partner and decades-long collaborator. Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 edited his early work, co-wrote <em>Enter the Void<\/em>, and is a producer on several of his films; No\u00e9 was a cinematographer on Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107\u2019s breakthrough shorts. \u201cIf an actor played Dino, he\u2019d be asking me about the character, and trying to get me to direct him,\u201d she says. \u201cI thought Gaspar would manage it by himself, even if he\u2019s playing a totally anti-Gaspar type of director.\u201d The other fictional crew members were played by friends and real filmmakers. \u201cI thought it\u2019d be funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 was Jeanne\u2019s age, she fell in love with Dario Argento\u2019s giallo slashers at the cinema: \u201cThey stayed with me forever.\u201d She\u2019s yet to see Joachim Trier\u2019s <em>Sentimental Value<\/em> but is aware of a gag where Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s character inappropriately gives his grandchildren DVDs of <em>The Piano Teacher<\/em> and No\u00e9\u2019s <em>Irr\u00e9versible<\/em>. \u201cBut with Dario Argento, those films aren\u2019t as real. Haneke and <em>Irr\u00e9versible<\/em> are more adult films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107 heard from a friend in France whose 15-year-old daughter found <em>The Ice Tower<\/em> to be overwhelming. \u201cIt was the dark, oppressive atmosphere,\u201d says Had\u017eihalilovi\u0107. \u201cThe soundtrack and feelings conveyed by the atmosphere are scary. It\u2019s not a film for children, even if it\u2019s a sort of fairytale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director believes that the ideal audience for <em>Innocence<\/em>, a film that had a \u201c15\u201d certificate in the UK, is 10-year-old girls. For <em>The Ice Tower<\/em>, though, she says, \u201cGirls around the age of Jeanne can relate to it, even if they\u2019re not used to seeing this type of arthouse film. Maybe they don\u2019t understand it, but you [open yourself] up to the emotions and feelings. It\u2019s not a good idea to show it to children. 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