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Mubi Acquires Magnus von Horn’s Chilling Cannes Competition Entry ‘The Girl With the Needle’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Mubi has acquired chilling black and white drama 'The Girl With the Needle,' which is in competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes
Directed by von Horn (“Sweat”) from a screenplay he wrote with Line Langebek, “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, who helped impoverished women kill their unwanted children and was first sentenced to death in 1921, but it was later changed into a lifetime in prison. In von Horn’s pic, set in post WW1 Copenhagen, the focal point is Karoline (Sonne), a young pregnant factory worker, who takes on the job of a wet-nurse for the charismatic Dagmar (Dyrholm) in order to escape poverty. “The Girl With the Needle” was met with widespread applause following its world premier in Cannes, Variety critic Guy Lodge describing it as a “terrifying, formally immaculate journey into the Stygian social margins of post-WWI Denmark,” and an “adult fairytale abundantly populated with witches and wretches, but where society is revealed as the true monster.”
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