Stafford Film Theatre – The Girl With the Needle

January 20, 7.30pm

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Magnus von Horn / Denmark, Poland, Sweden 2024 / 123min / Cert 15 / Subtitles

In post-World War 1 Copenhagen, Karoline, her husband missing in action, struggles to make ends meet working in a linen factory. After falling pregnant by the factory owner, she seeks help from a woman to have her baby adopted.

What starts as a film about the aftermath of post-war living, develops into something else entirely: a Dickensian portrait of a world that is closer to ours than we may think.

Stunningly photographed in high contrast black and white, and Oscar nominated for best international feature, this is “a film that lingers long in the mind after viewing”. ‘Pure Cinema’ AwardsWatch