THE ICE TOWER

The Ice Tower. (Hadzihalilovic) 2025 A BFI Release

The inspiration for Hadzihalilovic’s The Ice Tower is Hans Christian Anderson’s iconic fairy tale The Snow Queen. But this isn’t a conventional adaptation or even a re-imagining of the story but a fantasy film depicting a teenage girl’s infatuation with an actress, playing the snow queen in a film studio near the mountains of Italy’s South Tyrol: here reality, dream and movie artifice are seamlessly fused: a supremely confident blurring of setting and sensibility that makes for a hauntingly beautiful watch.

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