Marion Cotillard shared that, whereas she performs the enigmatic Cristina in her movie The Ice Tower (‘La Tour de Grace’), she discovered herself intimidated by her younger co-star Clara Pacini because the pair ready to work on the film.
Cotillard, who gained an Oscar in 2008 for her function of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, mentioned on the Berlinale Movie Competition:
“We met at my place and I realised I didn’t dare to look her straight within the eyes, I felt very uncomfortable. I felt intimidated by Clara, she may be very charismatic. That was the beginning of our work collectively, [that connection] already existed between us.”
Discussing her preparation for the function of actress Cristina, she mentioned: “I invented tales, rivalries with actors, failures and flops. I invented her decline, in a way.”
She added: “Repeatedly, I play mysterious figures, so I need to see that thriller for myself. I don’t need to discover out all the things, I need to be shocked by reactions in the midst of capturing.
“I let myself be carried alongside by what’s round me on any explicit day, together with interactions by the opposite actors.”
Cotillard stars within the fantasy drama directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović, who additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Geoff Cox. The film premiered at Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, Sunday February 16.
Within the story set within the Nineteen Seventies, Cotillard performs enigmatic actress Cristina who’s capturing a movie adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy story The Snow Queen through which she performs the title character. On the similar time, Pacini’s character Jeanne, a runaway teenage orphan, takes refuge within the studio the place the movie is being shot and falls underneath Cristina’s spell.
Cotillard mentioned of Hadžihalilović’s adaptation from the unique fairytale: “I beloved what Lucille had drawn out of the Anderson fairytale. I used to be intrigued by the very fact she takes the mirror and replaces it with a digital camera. It says rather a lot concerning the world we reside in right this moment. I believed it very profound.”
Of the problem of enjoying an actress herself enjoying an actress inside the film, Cotillard mirrored: “Movie inside movie, photos inside photos, having this lady herself by way of the picture of her that’s filmed, and in addition by way of this younger lady, packing containers inside packing containers.”
Hadžihalilović mentioned of her resolution to adapt this explicit age-old fairytale: “Fairy tales are scary and sophisticated, typically in addition they have an ethical side. The Snow Queen was one which fascinated me probably the most.”
Cotillard’s co-stars alongside Pacini embody August Diehl and Gaspar Noe.
Following its debut in Berlin, the movie might be launched theatrically in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on 17 September 2025.
