The Girl with the Needle

Name: The Girl with the Needle
Genre: Drama
Released: December 6, 2024
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 82

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MUBI | Release Date: December 6, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post World War I Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escapeKaroline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post World War I Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escape poverty, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, yet Karoline’s world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Tara Brady

Jan 10, 2025

The ever-reliable Dyrholm is both charismatic and curdling as the grubby matriarch. But most of the film is writ large and affectingly in Sonne’s agonised face. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Dec 7, 2024

The film is a harrowing and eerie horror fairy tale from another time, even as it feels startlingly fresh and always unpredictable. Read full review

Jim Vorel

Dec 10, 2024

Regardless of how you approach it, The Girl with the Needle remains an absolutely harrowing piece of historical horror, with an atmosphere of coldness and all-too-real misanthropy that captures a searing sense of truth. Read full review

The Film Verdict Stephen Dalton

May 18, 2024

Graced by a strong cast, visual poetry and great formal control, this brooding meditation on evil still resonates a century later. Read full review

Collider Luna Guthrie

Dec 5, 2024

It is not a movie with the intention of entertaining its audience, but rather of challenging, reminding, and warning. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

May 30, 2024

With his energised 2021 breakthrough Sweat, von Horn followed a young influencer grappling with the dark side of online life. This period piece offers a very different kind of female odyssey through a lonely and forbidding world. The result is harrowing but seriously impressive. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Dec 6, 2024

Based on the true story of a Danish serial killer named Dagmar Overbye, "The Girl with the Needle" becomes almost numbing in its brutality. Still, it's a well-made drama with a resonance that echoes a hundred years after the crimes it documents. Read full review

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