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From ‘Inside Out 2’ to ‘The Last Showgirl’ to ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ 2024 Films Tap Into Intergenerational Female Mentorship
From ‘Inside Out 2’ to ‘The Last Showgirl’ to ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ 2024 films tap into intergenerational female mentorship.
In films as diverse as “All We Imagine as Light,” “Babygirl,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Girl With the Needle,” “ Inside Out 2 ” “ The Last Showgirl,” “ My Old Ass ” and “The Substance,” women develop relationships with one another that alternately risk harm as much as they mean to be helpful, forge camaraderie out of competition or simply provide a mirror reflecting — frequently uncomfortably — who they once were or may one day become. Co-written by Line Langebek and its director, Magnus von Horn, “The Girl With the Needle” loosely filters the real-life story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye (Trine Dyrholm) through the journey of a willful young factory worker, Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), who’s determined to live by her own rules in patriarchal post-WWII Copenhagen. Though “Inside Out 2” co-screenwriter Meg LeFauve insists that she never thought about the film series’ anthropomorphized emotions as explicitly gendered characters, Amy Poehler and Maya Hawke forge a uniquely contentious relationship as (respectively) seasoned cheerleader Joy and frantic young strategist Anxiety, who draw battle lines across 13-year-old Riley’s expanding landscape of feelings.
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