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Release Date:

Oct 3, 2025

Runtime:

1hr 57m

Synopsis

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

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  • Feb 16, 2025

    It says runtime 118 minutes but I'm pretty sure that was eight times longer than The Brutalist. Berlinale 2025, #19

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    Luca Bruno
    Luca Bruno
    Feb 16, 2025

    This felt like a dream.. cause I was on the brink of falling asleep the entire time.

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    Mischa
    Mischa
    Nov 2, 2025

    I hate gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re chic, couture-clad Snow Queen capital D, DIVA Marion Cotillard from The Ice Tower?

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    Jun 6, 2026

    I started out understanding nothing and ended up understanding even less

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    Wexlley
    Wexlley
    Feb 16, 2025

    Portrait of a Lady on Ice

    122 Likes
    Berlinase
    Berlinase
    Sep 24, 2025

    yesssss beautiful movie give us nothing!!!!!

    119 Likes
    Emalie
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    Feb 16, 2025

    Frozen but make it European film festival

    120 Likes
    Maria Gurova
    Maria Gurova
    Feb 16, 2025

    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 spell. It’s anchored by an actress, Marion Cotillard, who has one of the…

    117 Likes
    IndieWire
    IndieWire
    Aug 23, 2025

    I've struggled to connect with Hadžihalilović's films in the past, but I really got lost in this one. It arguably has more of a story than usual for her, even though the story is still quite simple: a girl who feels lost and unloved turns to Someone Important – a towering…

    111 Likes
    Lucinda
    Lucinda
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    A bit quiet and slow, but with a really great performance by Marion Cotillard

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100
Nov 19, 2025

The Ice Tower is as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night. For it is a shadowy frío-noir, complete with femme fatale, even as its elusive, edgy narrative is passed down, like keepsake beads or diffracting crystals, from generation to generation.

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Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
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Feb 19, 2025

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is The Ice Tower (2025)?
The movie is 1hr 57min long.
What's The Ice Tower (2025) about?
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.