At first glance, fairy tale films and movies about making movies couldn't be more different from one another. While the former focus on taking audiences to a world beyond their imagination, the latter ...
Gorgeous and glacial in equally frosty measure, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s “The Ice Tower” is all art-film-only vibes, a wintry 1970s fairy tale about a screen actress who casts a potentially dangerous ...
Lucile Hadžihalilović doesn’t make horror films in a traditional sense, though her neo-noir body-horror movie Earwig may come closest. But while The Ice Tower isn't body horror, it still may be one of ...
A young runaway obsessed with Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale "The Snow Queen" falls under the spell of a temperamental actress portraying the titular character on a '70s movie set in the ...
This year’s international jury – made up of graphic novelist Emil Ferris, philosopher Hélène Frappat, author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, filmmaker John Hsu, and fashion designer Olivier Theyskens – also ...