Review: The Girl With The Needle
Official synopsis : Copenhagen 1919: A young worker (Vic Carmen Sonne) finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, ( Trine Dyrholm) who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work I have to say, I went into this Oscar nominee pretty blind. It is very loosely inspired by true events that happened in Denmark at the time, but I wasn't aware of it. So to say I was unprepared would be an understatement. This film rests neatly alongside Loveless and Tyrannosaur in the "Very well made, but I never want to watch you again" category. It's relentlessly bleak. The little moments of reprieve you get are eventually ripped away. Still, I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It's a very transfixing story. Sonne and Dyrholm are great together. Both characters carry so much in different ways, and they easily make you see it. The last meeting between the two characte...