Berlin: Glacial and gorgeously languid, Hadžihalilović's silver-screen fairy tale is a soothing cinematic ASMR that's all art-film-only vibes.

Two decades after their last collaboration, Marion Cotillard reunites with filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović for "The Ice Tower," a fractured fable that lifts as much from the work of Hans Christian Andersen as from Hadžihalilović's formative years.

What is it with Lucile Hadzihalilovic and ice? In her last film, Earwig, her central character was a browbeaten little girl without teeth who had to submit to wearing ice dentures, suspended from a cruel metal frame,