Until Girl with needle Premier in the ear, it was already involved in whispering of sick curiosity. Bill as a historical psychological horror film, it lured the audience with the promise of true crime and gothic expression, which Robert Egars was soon to resume again in the same year, only one suffocating them To close in hug. The film follows Karolina, a wet nurse in 1919 Denmark, inadvertently gets entangled with a real-life child farmer-Later for a serial killer with specialized serial killers. The singular cinematic experience, dysfonally inspired by the heinous crimes of Dagmar overboy, is a dark story immersed in arsenic and regrets who has given his first Oscar nomination to director Magnus von Horn and marked the most brilliant performance of Vik Carmen Son Has done

After the film’s Oscar nomination between the international heavyweight and the best picture claimants of this year, including Emilia Perez And I’m still hereAlso fellow Kanye alum Holy fig seed, I think actress and filmmaker Chintasheel still hum the summer adrenaline of her festival, and is active with her work reaction. Together, they dissect their film’s complexities, which asks his audience a lot: complex to doom and sympathy for forgiveness.

Trine Dyrholm, Magnus von Horn and Vik Carmen Son at the Cannes Film Festival 2024 at the premiere of ‘The Girl with the Needle’. Photo Credit: x/ @festatic_cannes

Von Horn quickly said in the conversation, “I didn’t want to make a film about Dagmar overboy,” instead, we focused on the journey of Karolina, which is fundamentally human – in a very rigid and cruel world Struggle for better life. She eventually meets Dabmer and has a similar relationship with her as the society had: first believing in her, feeling that she was helpful, and then searching for horrific about her. ,

This is true – inconvenience of Girl with needle Does not come from Gore (of which is very low of which is very low) but from this cool erosion of Karolina’s moral compass. Played with destructive accuracy by Son, Karolina is introduced as a desperate woman: her husband is dead, her milk is her only marketing skill, and her options are less and serious. The way the Dagmar provides a lifeline – room, board and income in exchange for his “adoption business”. It does not take a long time to show the cracks, although the horror is more insidious than the overt. The key to the trip to Karolina, as Von Horn has said, “was traveling in the dark with Karolina and looking for a way.”

“I don’t think we ever saw him as only one victim, only became more powerful later. It is much more complicated than that,” Vik’s chimes. From the beginning to the end, he is both, but the situation changes. Through honesty with you and for a more true reality, his autonomy and strength are more aligned with some mild and more truth. ,

Still from ‘The Girl with the Needle’. Photo Credit: Mubi

Circumstances, of course, are as serious as they come. After World War I Denmark is painted as a devastation of a kind of devastation-crawling out of a devastation and inadvertently in another. Industrial progress has brought machines, but no mercy, especially for women, whose life is fixed by their ability to produce: children, milk, domestic labor.

“We wanted to take the audience on a kind of journey, and the best way to do so was to take inspiration from photography and moving images of that time. It also includes the effects of stories that not from the period at all, while the alliance with the world was felt that we wanted to make – such as Charles Dickens, ”called Magnus.

World Magnus describes that it is presented with uncontrolled expansion. Every street and tenment ojoses with soot and despair, and it is a place on the tail of modernity, yet deeply retrograde. To re -create this world, the director and his team carefully drowned in research. Cinematographer Michal Dimech took inspiration from German expressionism, bathing in the shadow that swallows the entire rooms. “We also saw images from WWI, because the horrors of that time cannot be separated from the horrors in our story. Black-end-white images helped us make a journey at that time, ”he says.

The visual languages ​​of the era recall every aspect of Vik’s performance, with him how he studied Charlie Chaplin’s movements, whose foolish style completely surrounded the essence of the era. She says, “We wanted to ensure that Karolina remained authentic and was not portrayed as a figure from a black-white world to ensure that she feels real and reliable.”

The film has a relationship between Karolina and Trin Dyrhom’s Dagmar in the heart. Two women make a bond that is maternal, manipulation and hunter. Dagmar is both a savior and devil, offering Karolina protection at the expense of its complexity in unwanted acts.

“It was necessary to tell the story of co-dependent Karolina, but it was also difficult to portray it, which made it meaningful and exciting,” Vik. “I learned a lot from it, although it was difficult, and Magnus and I talked a lot of how someone to go somewhere else, feel the need, and to join with someone. It means being co-dependent. ,

Despite its duration setting, Girl with needle Fucker seems relevant. The themes of exploitation, strength and complexity are as usual, a point is early to emphasize both Magnus and Vik.

“Often, we see films as the exaggerated or twisted mirror of our world, whether they are sets or pasts in the future. This film is not very different, even if it is set in the past, ”says Magnus. “I don’t think the shocking facts about Dagmar overboy have surprised me a lot, but more realizing that these issues can still connect with the world. It is shocking – the fact that, to some extent, things have not changed, things have not changed Are. This is a scary part.

Still from ‘The Girl with the Needle’. Photo Credit: Mubi

Asked if Karolina will see her journey with regrets, she takes a long break before responding to Vg. “I think she will do it. But, as we had said earlier, she could also see herself as a survivor by turning back for a few months from now. I mean, Magnus is currently sitting in Poland, where abortion is banned, and there are many people who are still working today. Some survive, and others do not. ,

Magnus chimes with his own reflection on Karolina’s arc. “I also feel that it is important that he eventually breaks out of it and does something good, even if he scares it. It is part of his growth, and this story is a story of an upcoming age story One feels cautious. It is about a deal with the devil, but, in the end, doing something good.

By the time you reach the last moments Girl with needleYou feel that as you are hollow, it is well absorbed by its lifeless grace. But even calm, the terror of survival in a world that cannot care about you less, there is still a strange kind of beauty – a hopeful kind of beauty. It is expected that both will take the Academy Awards with them in March.

Girl with needle is currently streaming on Mubi