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 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 the basement of a movie studio,

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

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,

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.