'The Ice Tower' (2025) Movie Review

When 15-year-old orphan runaway Jeanne (Clara Pacini) breaks into a theater to sleep for the night, she discovers the building is being used to film an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, which just so happens to be her favorite fairy tale. As she insinuates herself into production, she falls under the thrall of Cristina (Marion Cotillard), the film’s demanding, enigmatic diva, and the two develop a mutual, deepening obsession. So goes The Ice Tower, the new film from Evolution and Earwig director, Lucile Hadzihalilovic.

Brent's Top Science Fiction Movies Of 2016

‘Tis the season for lists and lists and lists. I already did my top ten movies of 2016, followed by my top ten horror movies of 2016—if we’re being honest, it was a strong year for horror, so there’s a ton of crossover. Now, what the hell, it’s time for my top science fiction films of the 2016.

Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Sci-Fi Body Horror 'Evolution' Delivers A Surreal, Disturbing U.S. Trailer

Married to well-known filmic provocateur Gaspar Noe, and serving as producer, editor, and writer on the likes of I Stand Alone and Enter the Void, French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic is no stranger to challenging, transgressive cinema. But she’s also a director, turning in her own savage, subversive movies, and her latest, Evolution—a movie I love—just dropped a haunting new trailer.

SIFF 2016: 'Evolution' (2015) Capsule Review

Gaspar Noe may be the face of New French Extremity, but his wife, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, is no stranger to savage, transgressive films. Playing a part in the likes of I Stand Alone (as producer) and Enter the Void (as a writer), her second directorial effort, Evolution, bows at the Seattle International Film Festival, and delivers her own surreal, unsettling cinematic nightmare.