Siss and Unn are two 11-year-old girls. An alluring contact develops between the two girls, a relationship filled with dawning anticipation and a tacit longing for warmth and tenderness. One evening they meet, and for the first time in their lives they are thrown into a strong emotional confrontation. The next day, Unn is unable to meet Siss again. Instead, she ventures alone into the cold, lonely winter landscape.
Director: Per Blom. AKA Ice Palace
Writers: Per Blom, Tarjei Vesaas (novel: “Is-slottet” (1963)).
Stars: Line Storesund, Hilde Nyeggen Martinsen, Merete Moen, Sigrid Huun, Vidar Sandem, Knut Ørvig, Urda Brattrud Larsen, Charlotte Lundestad.
Cinematographer: Halvor Næss.
Composers: Geir Bøhren, Bent Åserud.
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Thank you very much indeed for this fine print!
I’ve waited so long for this, especially in good quality. Not many people will give this film its deserved credit but it’s really one of the best fims ever and has one of the most unique atmospheres I’ve ever seen in a film.
The book is great, too, btw. Thanks for this.
been looking for this for ages, thank you! the original novel is one of my absolute favourites.
enjoyed the novel a while ago but the movie disappointed me – too sentimental, although the choice of music and particularly its almost constant presence in the film certainly affected my impressions. i would have liked to have seen the film without any music, which i think would have far better complemented the spirit of the story.
I enjoyed this film an been trying to find it for ages. Did not disappoint.
Wasn’t bonkers about this one. Those ghastly 80s synth stabs, she was in the “ice palace” wandering around for an eternity and the metaphor was a little grating. I’m no prude, it was a different age, but the camera was prurient and the nudity unnecessary. I can’t believe a female director would have shot the girls this way.
There are a lot of films by female directors that show unnecessary nudity (also child-nudity) so why are you lying and what is even your point? Why do you need to bring gender to this topic? I mean, what have men even done to you?
PS: You’re definitely prude, you’re lying about that, too,
I really like this movie! Happened to read the novel and happened to find this film here, nice! Thank you!
A quiet, haunting, and incredibly beautiful film. IMO this is less a conventional film than a strange, beautiful visual poem. It is almost silent, and instead of explaining everything, it lets snow, faces, darkness, breathing, and the Norwegian landscape do the talking.
The ice palace itself is stunning. It is not some artificial royal building but a frozen waterfall hidden deep in the forest, both magical and terrifying. Vesaas’s language is incredibly poetic, yet I’m someone grown up in warm places. It can be hard to picture the world he describes because it comes completely from a natural living experience of Scandanivians. The film gives that world a body.
The two girls are also perfectly cast. They look beautiful on screen, and their scenes together have a very delicate, uncomfortable intimacy. The undressing scene is especially striking. I admired how frankly the film handles nudity, because it made that confused pre-teen experience feel deeply recognisable to me. An exclusive emphasis on protecting children can sometimes make people pretend that bodily curiosity, shame, and half-formed desire do not already exist at that age.
The film is much more direct and sentimental than the novel about the bond between Siss and Unn. Through long close-ups and silence, the film turns their relationship into something almost impossible to name, but very easy to feel.
By the end, when Siss cries in front of Unn’s photograph and the ice palace begins to collapse, it feels like more than recovery from grief. It feels like saying goodbye to a secret love, to childhood, and to a frozen world that could never survive spring.