Written and directed by Swedish-Polish director and screenwriter Magnus von Horn (The Right here After, Sweat), The Lady with the Needle is a interval horror-drama that performs out like a darkish fairy story, with parts that really feel concurrently acquainted and trendy, eerie and beautiful. That is due in no small half to its haunting rating by Frederikke Hoffmeier a.ok.a. Puce Mary and lovely cinematography by Michał Dymek. In reality, the movie took dwelling the Camerimage Movie Pageant’s Golden Frog in Toruń, Poland final yr, beating out Lol Crawley’s work on the creative epic (and Oscar Finest Image frontrunner) The Brutalist.
The Lady with the Needle is ready in Copenhagen on the finish of the First World Battle and follows a younger manufacturing facility employee named Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), who’s struggling to outlive within the absence of her husband, Peter (Besir Zeciri). Deemed lacking in motion and presumed useless, Peter’s sudden re-emergence finds Karoline even worse off than earlier than: unemployed, pregnant, and determined. It’s on this state that Karoline crosses paths with a mysterious girl named Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) who presents Karoline an answer to her troubles.
