La Tour de glace

For a film about world-building, it’s beautifully put together, with a score that speaks of dark spells and crumbling ice, and seamless special effects that draw Jeanne into the film within a film.

...a mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety, balancing on a cliff-edge of disaster.

...is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise. It’s interested not in emotion but sensation.

Marion Cotillard casts a spell in a shivery cinematic hypnosis from Lucile Hadžihalilovic.

...a hypnotic meditation on the enchantment that develops between an impressionable teenage runaway and the imperious film actress whose set she stumbles first onto, then into.

...a fairy tale frío-noir that will give you chills.