The Ice Tower

1/15/2026

There are three threads to this drama, but sadly none of them are really very engaging as it veers away from what could have been quite an intriguing fantasy and heads more into melodrama territory. Firstly, we have “Jeanne” (Clara Pacini). An upset orphan, she has only recently fled her home and just happens to stumble upon a film production of “The Snow Queen” that is being headlined by the temperamental “Cristina” (Marion Cotillard). Now “Cristina” is not a woman with her problems to seek either, and with the third strand illustrating just how the film is being made, we are presented with a slow, dimly lit and really quite lacklustre combination of themes that never quite sparkles. To be fair to Cotillard, she does exude a certain frostiness that the photography does well to support, bu