★★★★★
“A mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart…
The 1970s. Runaway Jeanne (Clara Pacini) falls under the spell of Cristina (Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard), enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where Jeanne has taken refuge. A mutual but potentially dangerous fascination begins to grow between the actress and the girl.
A richly textured and deeply moving tale of longing and solitude, The Ice Tower premiered in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
Credits
France, Germany 2025
118min
Certificate TBC
DCP
French with English subtitles
Dir Lucile Hadžihalilović
With Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl
Release screenings
November
21 November
BFI Southbank, London
ArtHouse Crouch End, London
Barbican Cinema, London
Chapter Cardiff
Curzon Bloomsbury
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Garden Cinema, London
ICA, London
Watershed, Bristol
30 November
Triskel Arts Centre
December
4 December
Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema
5 December
The Gate, Notting Hill, London
Pictureville Cinema (National Science and Media Museum), Bradford
12 December
Arc — Stockton Arts Centre
The Ashford Cinema
Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
The Dukes, Lancaster
Hebden Bridge Picture House
Northampton Filmhouse
Plymouth Arts Centre
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
Towner Gallery Eastbourne
Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
Courtyard Hereford
15 December
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
The Northern Light Cinema Wirksworth
The Rex, Berkhamsted
Savoy Cinema Heaton Moor
16 December
Forum Cinema, Hexham
17 December
Nerve Centre, Derry
20 December
MAC Birmingham
Malvern Theatre
27 December
Firstsite Colchester
28 December
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
January
2 January
Eden Court, Inverness
4 January
The Riverside, Woodbridge
9 January
Gloucester Guildhall
February
9 February
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge