Gorgeous and glacial in equally frosty measure, Lucile Hadžihalilović's "The Ice Tower" is all art-film-only vibes, a wintry 1970s fairy tale about a screen actress who casts a potentially ...

But seeing as how “The Ice Tower” is set in the ’70s (when certain filmmakers were famously trying to seduce minors), it might actually have made more sense for all of this to happen around ...

Like Andersen’s story, The Ice Tower centers on a girl on a quest, a framework that in the original can be read — as in many fairytales — as a mythologizing of the heroine’s growth into ...

Instead of hiking several hours to get to an icefall in the mountains, all climbing afficionados need to do in the village of Oravská Polhora, northern Slovakia, is to park their car right next to a ...

Indeed, “The Ice Tower” is very much about cinephilia. And if hardly playing in self-portraiture, Hadzihalilovic nevertheless made a point to set this imagistic coming-of-age fable at the ...

We didn’t have to wait too long after Earwig (2021) for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s enigmatic new offering, The Ice Tower. The whistling sounds of mountain winds announce the arrival of the Snow Queen ...

I am by the lake in Burträsk talking to Pia and Mats Klockljung about why they decided to build an ice tower. It is not actually called an igloo, they are made from snow and here we are using ice.

Hadzihalilovic is a director who refuses to compromise her very distinctive vision and that is the case here, even if The Ice Tower, which bows in Berlin Competition, is her biggest film to date ...

A film set is no place for little girls. In the fairy-tale-adjacent world of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s frigid dark fantasy “The Ice Tower,” an orphan runs away from her foster home and takes refuge in ...