In Lucile Hadžihalilović's hands, a mirror is a dangerous thing. Real mirrors, metaphysical mirrors, mirrors that go both ways. The Ice Tower, which is loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ...
At first glance, fairy tale films and movies about making movies couldn't be more different from one another. While the former focus on taking audiences to a world beyond their imagination, the latter ...
A young orphan becomes mesmerized by a volatile actress in this dark fairy tale. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...
What is it with Lucile Hadzihalilovic and ice? In her last film, Earwig, her central character was a browbeaten little girl without teeth who had to submit to wearing ice dentures, suspended from a ...
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 ...
Lucile Hadžihalilović doesn’t make horror films in a traditional sense, though her neo-noir body-horror movie Earwig may come closest. But while The Ice Tower isn't body horror, it still may be one of ...
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