Girl With the Needle: A Dark Drama Competing for Palme d’Or at Cannes

“A fictional story about a terrible reality”; This is how the film “Girl With the Needle” by the Swedish director Magnus von Horn was described.

The film, from a screenplay written by von Horn and Leine Langbeck, is based on the true story of the Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbey, who helped poor women to kill their unwanted children first converted to life imprisonment .

The film, which will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, takes place in Copenhagen, where a young pregnant woman, Caroline, works as a nurse for an older woman, Dagmar, who running a secret adoption organization under the guise of a candy shop; Helping mothers place their unwanted newborns into foster care, as Caroline grows closer to Dagmar she is soon faced with the nightmarish reality that she has known

Regarding his film, he said in an interview with Variety magazine: “I’m not interested in looking at the darkness from the human side, but in the humanity that you might find in the -darkest and least unexpected places.”

He said: “Basically the story of the film is about a woman who struggles with love – how to love and how to be loved – when it’s easier to flirt with the devil. How do we find strength when it is often easier to abandon the moral path and say, ‘Fuck everything?'”.

In his film, the Swedish director emphasizes elements borrowed from epics and fairy tales, such as the poor, innocent girl who was seduced by an evil witch-like woman, he said: “A despite the move to genre drama, I wanted to put this dark story at a safe distance from the audience, and make it attractive and attractive.

The film will be in black and white; To deepen the sense of time, by Trine Dyrholm, Victoria Carmen Son, and Bashir Zeqiri; They are actors known for their ability to embody complex characters, according to many critics, and they are joined by Tessa Hodder, Ari Alexander, and Joachim Filstrup.