Marion Cotillard has found who portrays his coldest and more hieratic side. That in some interpretation of fatal woman He had taught slicing. Lucile Hadžihalilić has given him in Ice tower A steady character, in which he concentrates his drives through his blue eyes: Cristina, a lonely and enigmatic film star who in a filming in the Alps, in the 1970s, is playing the villain of the classic of Hans Christian Andersen The Snow Queen. There appears an orphan teenager who flees from his reception home, and who will end up hypnotized and trapped in the sentimental and emotional web that Cristina weaves.
Hadžihalilić and Cotillard had already worked together in the first length of the French director, Innocence (2004), focused on a slightly special hospital. Then, each one made their own path. Cotillard became an Oscar winner with Life in pink; Hadžihalilić investigated in his oppressive atmospheres in Evolution (2015) y Earwig (2021), in addition to collaborating in her husband’s work, Gaspar Noah (in The snow queen gives life to the film director). In their reunion, they have arrived at the Berlinale competition this Sunday.
The tone and atmospheres of Hadžihalilović cinema arise from his childhood. “Since childhood I have scared and fascinated fairy tales. Andersen those especially, because they refuse morals, are disturbing … and provide a poetic aspect, ”he said. In The ice tower, A fairy tale serves to wrap another fairy tale, a game that is born from the fantasy of that fugitive teenager that falls under the spell of whom he considers, because he behaves, the winter monarch. For Cotillard, “I loved the feeling of strength and despair of these women who are going through difficult times in their lives, and how their relationship is fascination and some domination.” Known for her meticulousness, the actress decided to build the entire past of that cold star: “I wrote sequences of her previous life, her career, her rise to fame and the loss of her innocence.”
Cotillard underlines: “The two women of Ice tower They are going through different fears because they belong to different generations, but in both it is reflected that, when you do not respect yourself, you move away from who you are and your path. I loved that in this version. ” Interestingly, as a child I had never read this story. “I discovered the story through Disney movies (there are several versions, and the furthest, although also the most famous, is Frozen). Four years ago I saw a very canonical theatrical adaptation in the française comedie, and then I understood that I had not read the real story. Lucile moves away from classic, but emphasizes the most important thing: fear. And the mirror of the story has changed to a camera. ”
That terror has been incorporated by Hadžihalilović almost in his DNA: “As a child, in Lyon, my mother wrote to me and read some stories of beautiful and cruel fairies. In many the trip of a girl, her difficulties and her struggles appeared. ” Fair, the synopsis of The ice tower.
In a berlinale of frost sidewalks and that in very few moments of the weekend the temperature has risen from zero degrees, on the screens there is also a good handful of films set in snow and cold. Cotillard talked about the beauty of that landscape – “sometimes we forget that each snowflow is unique and different” – to accommodate dramas. “It is a great frame for Cristina’s look on the teenager, Jeanne, because he reminds him of who could be, a better person.”
And bringing the question to her personal life, the actress explained that she constantly battles for not getting lost in life: “It is important to protect you in today’s society, because the public invents the lives of a person who actually only knows through His words and his work. Social networks provide a false sense of closeness. At the same time I fight to continue connected to the real world. That is very complicated. Every day I fight to be Marion Cotillard. ”
CHRISTOPHER NEUNDORF (EFE)
In Ice tower There is a wake up relationship, someone who takes advantage, in a solo and icy world, of another person who begs crumbs of affection. And, obviously, the star uses the deep admiration he receives from the adolescent. In those manipulations built from Cotillard’s eyes, which leads the look in Huppert mode, is where Ice tower Reach your best moments.