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:

The latest feature from French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic ('Earwig,' 'Evolution') follows an orphaned teenage girl who stumbles into a haunting real-world fable.

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,

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

Marion Cotillard stars in French director Lucile Hadžihalolović's fourth feature, a glacially paced adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”. Prepare to be entranced. View on euronews

Two decades after their last collaboration, Marion Cotillard reunites with filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović for “ The Ice Tower ,” a fractured fable that lifts as much from the work of Hans Christian Andersen as from Hadžihalilović’s formative years.

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 cruel metal frame,