Cannes Film Fest 2024–Competition
In Magnus von Horn’s urgently timely drama, The Girl With the Needle, Vic Carmen Sonne delivers a powerful performance as a seamstress in post-World War I Copenhagen.
She is left high and dry when her wealthy lover gets her pregnant but won’t marry her.
The girl then faces two “choices,” give herself a risky abortion (to her and the fetus) with knitting needle, or give birth, have the baby and hand it over to a sinister woman (Trine Dyrholm) who runs a backstreet adoption agency.
The film builds up tension and suspension all the way to a devastating climax.
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