Oscars: Denmark Selects ‘The Girl With The Needle’ As Best International Feature Submission
deadline.comDenmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With the Needle as its Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film category.
Starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, The Girl With the Needle 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.
Deadline’s review called the film, “an unequivocal and beguiling triumph.” Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen.
When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children.
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