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Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn’s darkish interval drama “The Woman With the Needle” will compete for the Palme d’Or on the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant. Selection has been given unique entry to a first-look clip from the movie.
Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I will Come Working”), “The Woman With the Needle” is loosely primarily based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish girl who established an underground adoption company in post-World Conflict I Copenhagen to assist poor ladies coping with undesirable pregnancies.
Starring Trine Dyrholm (“In a Higher World,” “Queen of Hearts”), Vic Carmen Sonne (“Godland,” “Vacation”) and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”), the movie follows Karoline (Sonne), a younger manufacturing unit employee who’s struggling to outlive on the fringes of society. When she finds herself unemployed, deserted and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic shopkeeper who helps poor moms to search out foster properties for his or her undesirable youngsters.
With nowhere else to show, Karoline takes on the position of a wet-nurse, and a robust connection kinds between the 2 ladies. However Karoline’s world shatters when she stumbles upon the stunning fact behind her work.
Within the unique clip beneath, Karoline arrives at Dagmar’s doorstep and appeals to the girl for assist in discovering her new child a house:
Von Horn’s third function marks a stylistic departure from his earlier motion pictures. Lensed in moody black-and-white by “Sweat” cinematographer Michal Dymek, it’s each the director’s first foray into interval drama and his first stab on the style.
Describing the movie as a “fairy story for grownups,” von Horn says he was motivated “to not simply make a straight style piece (however) to flirt with style.” “That turned an ideal lens to take a look at the story, for me and the cinematographer and the set designers and the costumes,” he says.
Born in Göteborg, Sweden, and an alumnus of Poland’s venerable Lodz Movie Faculty, von Horn has turn into an everyday fixture in Cannes since his function debut, “The Right here After,” premiered within the competition’s Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar in 2015. His sophomore effort , “Sweat,” was additionally a part of the competition’s official choice throughout its 2020 pandemic version, and would go on to journey extensively, securing US distribution with Mubi.
“The Woman With the Needle” is produced by the Nordisk Movie Artistic Alliance in co-production with Lava Movies and Nordisk Movie Manufacturing Sweden. It is co-produced with Movie i Väst, EC1 Łódź Movie Fund and the Decrease Silesia Movie Heart and co-financed by the Danish Movie Institute, the Polish Movie Institute, the Swedish Movie Institute, DR, SVT, Nordisk Movie & TV Fund and Eurimages and Artistic Europe Media. The producers are Malene Blenkov and Mariusz Włodarski. The chief producers are Henrik Zein, Calle Marthin, Katrine Vogelsang and Lone Scherfig. The Match Manufacturing facility is dealing with world gross sales.
The Cannes Movie Pageant runs Might 14 – 25.
Cannes Contender ‘The Woman With the Needle’ Unveils First Clip
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