THE SNOW QUEEN

Smooth blue surfaces dominate the office where we see Naine, dressed in black and looking gravely ill, apparently selling off her business. Similarly cool surfaces set the tone of the home she subsequently sets up in the region’s coldest valley. Naine floods her new house with water and is soon living in a palace of glistening ice. Her emotions and senses appear to be frozen as well – despite her relationship with Jasper, the school-pupil who follows her, fascinated, back to her chilly abode. And spring is coming soon. Striking visual compositions and compelling actors transform H. C. Andersen’s fairytale into a mythical parable on willpower and impotence.