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The Girl with the Needle

Summary Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post World War I Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escap...

Directed By: Magnus von Horn

Written By: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn

  • MUBI
  • 1 h 55 m
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 55 m

The Girl with the Needle

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
81
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Summary Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post World War I Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escap...

Directed By: Magnus von Horn

Written By: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn

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90
May 18, 2024
The extremity of suffering on display here makes for difficult viewing, scarcely leavened by the expressionistic beauty of its presentation. But von Horn’s film never plays as empty miserablism, in large part thanks to its grave understanding of the moral and spiritual reasoning behind unimaginable acts of violence.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
83
May 18, 2024
Von Horn, however, cares for his characters and each is allowed a hardwon grace note. One leaves the cinema entertained and reeling, very unsure of what in any other context would be so easy to judge.
By Sophie Monks Kaufman FULL REVIEW
80
May 30, 2024
With his energised 2021 breakthrough Sweat, von Horn followed a young influencer grappling with the dark side of online life. This period piece offers a very different kind of female odyssey through a lonely and forbidding world. The result is harrowing but seriously impressive.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
80
May 23, 2024
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.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
80
May 18, 2024
Graced by a strong cast, visual poetry and great formal control, this brooding meditation on evil still resonates a century later.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
80
May 18, 2024
It all could be too much reality to handle if it weren’t for the fact that mercifully, the film ends on a hopeful note, with the most wicked characters punished for their sins and the good given a second chance. It’s undoubtedly something of a fairy-tale ending, but the kind we need these days.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
80
May 18, 2024
There’s no doubting the shiver of pure fear that runs through this movie from beginning to end.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nordisk Film Production, Creative Alliance, Lava Films, Nordisk Film Production, Film i Väst, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Dolnoslaskie Centrum Filmowe, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Creative Europe Media, Lower Silesia Film Centre
Duration 1 h 55 m
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Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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