The Girl with the Needle
- Sunday, Jan 5, 2025, 3:15pm
- Monday, Jan 6, 2025, 7:00pm
- Tuesday, Jan 7, 2025, 7:00pm
- Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025, 7:00pm
A standout selection from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and shortlisted for Best International Feature for the 2025 Academy Awards, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.
Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn’s latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she ends up unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar takes her in to help run an underground adoption agency for unwanted children. The two women form an unexpected bond, until a sudden revelation changes everything.
Based on a chilling true story, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE presents a masterful gothic vision with profound contemporary resonance. Golden Globe Nominee for Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language and winner of two European Film Awards for Best Production Design and Best Score.
In Danish with English subtitles.
“A harrowing and eerie horror fairy tale from another time, even as it feels startlingly fresh and always unpredictable.” Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
“Horribly effective grand guignol, made with enormous technical flair, like Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd without the bleak humour – there are touches of Lynch, Von Trier or even Tod Browning here.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“As you find yourself immersed in the film’s quiet terrors, it emerges as an evocative and unsparing work, facing down a gathering darkness that has the power to swallow you whole.” Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap