Hadžihalilović’s newest film, The Ice Tower, was billed as her most accessible work yet, borrowing from a source more familiar than she has before: Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale “The Snow Queen.” The most intriguing part about Jeanne / Bianca’s life beyond the foster home is that the basement she decides to bunk up in turns out to be a film set––not just any, but one of a gloriously stylish film adaptation of “The Snow Queen” where the title character is played by a well-respected diva film star, Cristina van den Berg (notice the mountain in her last name! While Andersen’s tale features a cursed mirror distorting everything reflected in it, The Ice Tower uses mirrors, ice, and glass to build kaleidoscopic versions of the Queen’s kingdom and Jeanne’s perception of the world.