She is astonished to realise what story is being filmed - Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’, a story she has long been fascinated with. It is here that her urchin-like prettiness and air of demurely sensitive adoration for the queen catches Cristina’s (Marion Cotillard) eye, the enigmatic diva-ish star of the film. A mutual fascination grows between the actress and the girl. Sequences in the film let us drift as if in a dream. It is a mesmeric melodrama, mixing sensuality with a teetering anxiety, balancing on a cliff-edge of disaster.