The Girl With the Needle

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Melissa Absolutely brutal and unsparing look at life in poverty in post-WWI Denmark and how some people will go to any length to survive. Not for the faint of heart. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/25 Full Review Nicolas J The Girl With the Needle is impeccably shot and disturbingly bold, it overindulges in bleakness, the director despises his main charaters and soon enough we will too. The emotional and narrative restraint feels replaced by a relentless, artful barrage of despair that ceases to feel purposeful and to feel gratuitous. Cruel misery porn if poorly paced is hard to stomach, no matter how gorgeus. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/12/25 Full Review Tom F A harrowing look at what people do to cope with an impossible situation. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/12/25 Full Review Charlotte H This film is as immersive as it is disturbing. The use of black and white and experimental imagery, reminiscent of early avant-garde film makers and heavily influenced by Bunuel’s L’age Dor and early Lynch was intoxicating. The subtle, but effective use of forth wall breaking draws you in to this brutal storytelling and the realisation that these events; the disfigurement of soldiers, baby farms and exploitation of the ‘unfortunate’, made me shiver. The makeup effects were clever and extremely well executed and however disturbing, you have to give props to that young actress that has to breast feed at age 7. It was also nice to see newborns playing newborns. Not an obvious 20lb 6month old trying to be passed off as one. This deserves all the recognition that it got. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/22/25 Full Review Fong Kok Hoong F Hauntingly shot in black and white, this Oscar nominee for Best International Feature is a reimagination of the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye in 1920s Copenhagen with an unexpectedly touching narrative of an obtuse young woman beaten by crime horror and harsh realities to come of age to be a surrogate mother of hope and warmness in that bleak period of poverty and moral abandonment. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/15/25 Full Review Carl M It's brutal but beautiful. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/11/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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