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The Girl with the Needle

2024 · 123 min

A grim, slow-burning plunge into post-war desperation that unsettles with its stark monochrome and quiet, mounting dread.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, survival, isolation, parenthood
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
survival
isolation
parenthood
morality
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild