The Girl with the Needle
2024, drama, history
123 minutes
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
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9.0
2025-02-25
The Girl With the Needle is raw, unrelenting, and unforgettable—its emotional and visual impact heightened by masterful staging and an ever-present sense of suffocating tension. Read more
8.0
2025-02-25
A darkly impressive film that will not be to everyone’s tastes. Read more
8.0
2025-02-03
It is hard to watch both due to the dark material and what may be small pacing issues, but it remains a haunting film about harsh living and working conditions, especially for women, but also about the human monsters lurking in the dark preying on people in need. Read more
8.0
2025-01-21
You won’t find much other mercy here, but alongside these powerful performances and mesmerizing storytelling, just a glimmer is enough. Read more
8.0
2024-12-03
The Girl with the Needle highlights how a society shifting through the rubble of a war allows evil to go unnoticed. Read more
8.0
2024-05-18
The Girl with the Needle isn’t a watershed in the history of film. It lacks the surrealist magnificence of Eraserhead, and punch-in-the-face factor of The Devil’s Bath. But it will still enrapture and shock you. Read more
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