The Girl with the Needle15

Directed by Magnus Von Horn | Denmark | 2024 | 2h 3m | Danish w/ English subtitles | Starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Joachim Fjelstrup, Ava Knox Martin

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work. Inspired by a chilling true story, Magnus Von Horn’s visually striking black-and-white drama unfolds as a haunting blend of gruesome fairy tale and gothic nightmare.

🏆 Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.

Reviews

‘This period piece offers a very different kind of female odyssey through a lonely and forbidding world. The result is harrowing but seriously impressive.’
★★★★
Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

‘It’s a black-and-white period piece invested with a supremely eerie folkloric edge – a bleak historical chapter made timeless, and all the more troubling for it.’
★★★★
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

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