Set in the 1970s, the picture follows runaway Jeanne (Clara Pacini) who falls under the spell of Cristina (Marion Cotillard), the enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge.

French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović directs marion Cotillard in the shivery, hypnotic fairy tale 'The Ice Tower.'

A film set is no place for little girls. In the fairytale-adjacent world of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s frigid dark fantasy "The Ice Tower," an orphan runs away from her foster home and takes refuge in the basement of a movie studio,

Marion Cotillard shared that, while she plays the enigmatic Cristina in her film The Ice Tower (‘ La Tour de Grace ’), she found herself intimidated by her young co-star Clara Pacini as the pair prepared to work on the movie. Cotillard, who won an Oscar in 2008 for her role of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, said at the Berlinale Film Festival:

EXCLUSIVE: Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired all North American rights for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s dark fairy tale The Ice Tower, following its buzzy world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Ice Tower' is full of brilliantly conceived and rendered pathways that end in cul-de-sacs; it is beguiling, but hardly satisfying.