Joachim Fjelstrup

Beautiful to look at and harrowing to watch, The Girl With The Needle is a drama set in Post WWI Denmark. Anchored on a true crime story of the era in Copenhagen, the film focuses on the lives of marginalized women in that city. The movie opens with a strange collage of faces, twisted and distorted in anguish, while haunting music heightens a sense of impending doom. The Girl With The Needle is technically superb, thematically despair-inducing and overall utterly engaging. File those seeming contradictions under “magic of cinema”.