Yeti, Inuit, Blanche Gardin in Berlin Film ‘The Incredible Snow Woman’
“Traveling solo across Greenland, camping on an ice floe, single-handedly wrestling a bear. Not much daunts Coline Morel – except, perhaps, confronting her own existence when it starts to spiral out of control.” Thus reads a synopsis of French writer-director Sébastien Betbeder’s film The Incredible Snow Woman (L’ Incroyable femme des neiges) with French comedian Blanche Gardin (Yannick, The Book of Solutions), Philippe Katerine, Bastien Bouillon, Ole Eliassen, and Martin Jensen, which will world premiere at the 75th Berlin Film Festival. Screening in the Berlinale’s main sidebar Panorama, the new movie from the director of Marie and the Misfits and Ulysses & Mona sees the protagonist, an explorer, turning up unannounced in her native village in the Jura mountains to visit her two brothers Basile and Lolo, whom she hasn’t seen in years. Add in the appearance of her first love and other unexpected developments, and Coline spirals out of control. The journey she decides she must go on, which also includes an inner journey, could turn out to be the most difficult and the …