The Girl with the Needle (2024)
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Country: DK/POL/SV/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.50:1 123m
Director: Magnus von Horn
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup
Synopsis:
At the close of WWI in Denmark, a girl close to being made homeless forms a liaison with her employer she hopes will lead to matrimony. However, before long she is not only pregnant but unemployed, and with her disfigured missing in action husband back on the scene. It is at this point that she takes desperate measures.
Review:
A gruelling reminder of how far we have come in a century (and Denmark was not even in the war), von Horn's film is like a gothic fairytale, with its faces ghosted by malnutrition and little town perched on a hill. It is in fact a double portrait, with one woman (who tellingly runs a sweet shop) exploiting the misery of her sex, and the other, also driven to cruelty by poverty, but desperately in need of something to love. Perhaps half an hour shaved off would have helped, but the actresses are astonishing and the mise en scène and soundtrack consistently in line with the nightmarish aesthetic. Apparently based on true events.
(Pigen med nålen)
Country: DK/POL/SV/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.50:1 123m
Director: Magnus von Horn
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup
Synopsis:
At the close of WWI in Denmark, a girl close to being made homeless forms a liaison with her employer she hopes will lead to matrimony. However, before long she is not only pregnant but unemployed, and with her disfigured missing in action husband back on the scene. It is at this point that she takes desperate measures.
Review:
A gruelling reminder of how far we have come in a century (and Denmark was not even in the war), von Horn's film is like a gothic fairytale, with its faces ghosted by malnutrition and little town perched on a hill. It is in fact a double portrait, with one woman (who tellingly runs a sweet shop) exploiting the misery of her sex, and the other, also driven to cruelty by poverty, but desperately in need of something to love. Perhaps half an hour shaved off would have helped, but the actresses are astonishing and the mise en scène and soundtrack consistently in line with the nightmarish aesthetic. Apparently based on true events.
(Pigen med nålen)
Country: DK/POL/SV/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.50:1 123m
Director: Magnus von Horn
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup
Synopsis:
At the close of WWI in Denmark, a girl close to being made homeless forms a liaison with her employer she hopes will lead to matrimony. However, before long she is not only pregnant but unemployed, and with her disfigured missing in action husband back on the scene. It is at this point that she takes desperate measures.
Review:
A gruelling reminder of how far we have come in a century (and Denmark was not even in the war), von Horn's film is like a gothic fairytale, with its faces ghosted by malnutrition and little town perched on a hill. It is in fact a double portrait, with one woman (who tellingly runs a sweet shop) exploiting the misery of her sex, and the other, also driven to cruelty by poverty, but desperately in need of something to love. Perhaps half an hour shaved off would have helped, but the actresses are astonishing and the mise en scène and soundtrack consistently in line with the nightmarish aesthetic. Apparently based on true events.