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‘The Girl With The Needle’ Review: Magnus Von Horn’s Dark Fairytale Retelling Of Denmark’s Most Infamous Serial Murder Case Is Beguiling – Cannes Film Festival
Magnus von Horn’s place in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with his third feature The Girl With the Needle, must surely mark his coming-of-age.
The film, starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War. This kind of delicate tiptoeing between extremes pervades all departments, with Jagna Dobesz’s sets — including a dripping attic room for Karoline caked in bird feces, and a glistening candy store above which Dagmar resides — similarly evoking both truth and fantasy. Title: The Girl With the Needle Festival: Cannes (Competition) Director-screenwriter: Magnus von Horn Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm Sales agent: The Match Factory Running time: 1 hr 55 min
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