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Magnus von Horn’s Cannes Contender ‘The Girl With the Needle’ Unveils First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)
The third feature from the Swedish-Polish director, which will compete for the Palme d'Or, is a dark period drama set in post-World War I Copenhagen.
Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I’ll Come Running”), “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who established an underground adoption agency in post-World War I Copenhagen to help poor women dealing with unwanted pregnancies. Describing the film as a “fairy tale for grownups,” von Horn says he was motivated “not to just make a straight genre piece [but] to flirt with genre.” “That became a great lens to look at the story, for me and the cinematographer and the set designers and the costumes,” he says. Born in Göteborg, Sweden, and an alumnus of Poland’s venerable Lodz Film School, von Horn has become a regular fixture in Cannes since his feature debut, “ The Here After,” premiered in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar in 2015.
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