Mubi has swooped on its third 2024 Cannes competition title, Variety has learned.
Having acquired worldwide rights to Coralie Fargeat’s buzzy body horror “The Substance” and U.K. rights to Andrea Arnold’s Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski-starring ‘Bird’ before the festival began, the arthouse distributor, production banner and streamer has now picked up Magnus von Horn’s chilling black and white drama “The Girl With the Needle.” Mubi bought the title for North America, U.K./Ireland, Latin America, Germany/Austria, Italy, Turkey and India.
Directed by von Horn (“Sweat”) from a screenplay he wrote with Line Langebek, “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, who helped impoverished women kill their unwanted children and was first sentenced to death in 1921, but it was later changed into a lifetime in prison.
In von Horn’s pic, set in post WW1 Copenhagen,...
Having acquired worldwide rights to Coralie Fargeat’s buzzy body horror “The Substance” and U.K. rights to Andrea Arnold’s Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski-starring ‘Bird’ before the festival began, the arthouse distributor, production banner and streamer has now picked up Magnus von Horn’s chilling black and white drama “The Girl With the Needle.” Mubi bought the title for North America, U.K./Ireland, Latin America, Germany/Austria, Italy, Turkey and India.
Directed by von Horn (“Sweat”) from a screenplay he wrote with Line Langebek, “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, who helped impoverished women kill their unwanted children and was first sentenced to death in 1921, but it was later changed into a lifetime in prison.
In von Horn’s pic, set in post WW1 Copenhagen,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Almost a decade since his debut feature The Here After premiered at Directors’ Fortnight, Swedish director Magnus von Horn is finally in Cannes Competition with the black-and-white period film The Girl with the Needle. Previously there was Sweat––the Polish-language jab at influencer culture––but when the festival was canceled on account of the pandemic, it got a “Cannes Selection” stamp rather than “Competition.” A silver lining that The Girl with the Needle is perhaps best-suited for a Palme d’Or head-to-head: it is surprising, stylish, and unabashedly brave.
Von Horn certainly knows what to aim for when bringing in two of the most exciting names in Scandinavian cinema today, Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday) and Trine Dyrholm. Sonne plays Karoline, a factory seamstress who finds herself in a pickle; Dyrholm is Dagmar, the mysterious woman who offers help. While Karoline is undoubtedly the protagonist––and the titular girl with the needle,...
Von Horn certainly knows what to aim for when bringing in two of the most exciting names in Scandinavian cinema today, Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday) and Trine Dyrholm. Sonne plays Karoline, a factory seamstress who finds herself in a pickle; Dyrholm is Dagmar, the mysterious woman who offers help. While Karoline is undoubtedly the protagonist––and the titular girl with the needle,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
Like one of those fiendish knots that tighten the more you squirm, director Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competitor The Girl With the Needle builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire.
Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) offers an understated but multi-layered performance as Karoline, a vulnerable but resilient seamstress living in post-World War I/early-1920s Copenhagen, who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her knocked up but won’t marry her. That leaves Karoline with only two options: give herself a bathtub abortion with a knitting needle or have the baby and hand it over to Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a sinister candy-store owner who runs a backstreet adoption agency.
Shot digitally, in black and white and using a claustrophobic 3:2 ratio by rising cinematographer Michal Dymek (A Real Pain, Eo), the film has the haunted, eerily still poise of antique photographs,...
Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) offers an understated but multi-layered performance as Karoline, a vulnerable but resilient seamstress living in post-World War I/early-1920s Copenhagen, who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her knocked up but won’t marry her. That leaves Karoline with only two options: give herself a bathtub abortion with a knitting needle or have the baby and hand it over to Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a sinister candy-store owner who runs a backstreet adoption agency.
Shot digitally, in black and white and using a claustrophobic 3:2 ratio by rising cinematographer Michal Dymek (A Real Pain, Eo), the film has the haunted, eerily still poise of antique photographs,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There is a rug-pull moment in Magnus von Horn’s handsome and captivating period yarn that cleaves his drama into “before” and “after.” It is a testament to the rich and assured storytelling on offer in his Cannes competition entry “The Girl with the Needle” that, although the moment seems to come out of nowhere, it instantly makes sense and serves to ratchet up the tension, propelling the story’s evergreen themes into a confrontational new register.
In post-World War I Copenhagen, we drop in with Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) as she is being evicted from a pleasant room in a respectable part of town. With her soldier husband Mia, her factory worker wages don’t cover the rent and she has fallen into arrears. The rapacious need of this time is telegraphed as mere minutes after Karoline receives her marching orders, the woman replacing her arrives to look over the room.
In post-World War I Copenhagen, we drop in with Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) as she is being evicted from a pleasant room in a respectable part of town. With her soldier husband Mia, her factory worker wages don’t cover the rent and she has fallen into arrears. The rapacious need of this time is telegraphed as mere minutes after Karoline receives her marching orders, the woman replacing her arrives to look over the room.
- 5/15/2024
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of 2020 was canceled in the wake of the Covid pandemic, so von Horn’s place in this year’s Competition, with his third feature The Girl With the Needle, must surely mark the Swedish director’s coming-of-age. The film, starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War.
Dyrholm stars as Dagmar Overbye, the Danish serial killer convicted of murdering nine children — but suspected of many more deaths — between 1913 and 1920. One was her own; the others were handed to her by struggling mothers with babies born out of wedlock,...
Dyrholm stars as Dagmar Overbye, the Danish serial killer convicted of murdering nine children — but suspected of many more deaths — between 1913 and 1920. One was her own; the others were handed to her by struggling mothers with babies born out of wedlock,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
In 2020, Magnus von Horn was excited to find that his film Sweat had been accepted into the Official Selection at Cannes, a big step up from his debut, The Here After, which made Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. The pandemic put an end to that, but his disappointment was short-lived; this year, his dark atmospheric follow-up, The Girl With the Needle, sees him joining the big league. “This is huge to me,” he beams. “The main competition!”
Magnus von Horn
Set in Denmark during World War I, the film stars Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, a young seamstress whose soldier husband is missing in action. Through a series of mishaps, Karolin falls pregnant, loses her job, and meets a mysterious woman named Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) who runs both a candy store and an adoption agency.
Now based in Poland, where he graduated from Łódź Film School in 2013, Von Horn has always pursued a career in film.
Magnus von Horn
Set in Denmark during World War I, the film stars Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, a young seamstress whose soldier husband is missing in action. Through a series of mishaps, Karolin falls pregnant, loses her job, and meets a mysterious woman named Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) who runs both a candy store and an adoption agency.
Now based in Poland, where he graduated from Łódź Film School in 2013, Von Horn has always pursued a career in film.
- 5/15/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn’s dark period drama “The Girl With the Needle” will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Variety has been given exclusive access to a first-look clip from the film.
Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I’ll Come Running”), “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who established an underground adoption agency in post-World War I Copenhagen to help poor women dealing with unwanted pregnancies.
Starring Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”), the film follows Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker who is struggling to survive on the fringes of society. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic shopkeeper who helps poor mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children.
With nowhere else to turn, Karoline...
Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I’ll Come Running”), “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who established an underground adoption agency in post-World War I Copenhagen to help poor women dealing with unwanted pregnancies.
Starring Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”), the film follows Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker who is struggling to survive on the fringes of society. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic shopkeeper who helps poor mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children.
With nowhere else to turn, Karoline...
- 5/10/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Cologne-based The Match Factory has acquired rights to Swedish-Polish helmer Magnus von Horn’s Danish pic “The Girl With the Needle,” billed as a “fairy-tale about a horrible truth.” In the starring roles are Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”).
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.
“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”
Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.
- 1/18/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
The Golden Globes has dropped 18 voters who are former members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and will not be voting for the 81st awards, TheWrap has learned.
The Globes sent an email informing studios of the change, which was obtained by TheWrap, and did not give a reason for the change. The list included three people – Munawar Hosain, Aniko Navai and Howaida Hamdy Serour – who were expelled after investigations into violations of the Globes’ code of conduct. Two of those members, Hosain and Hamdy Serous, had been investigated by TheWrap.
All the members had been among the former HFPA members who were paid $75,000 per year under the agreement to sell the organization to Eldridge Industries.
The Globes did not respond to a request for comment on the email to studios, or to explain why the members had been dropped as voters.
The awards are scheduled to take place on Jan.
The Globes sent an email informing studios of the change, which was obtained by TheWrap, and did not give a reason for the change. The list included three people – Munawar Hosain, Aniko Navai and Howaida Hamdy Serour – who were expelled after investigations into violations of the Globes’ code of conduct. Two of those members, Hosain and Hamdy Serous, had been investigated by TheWrap.
All the members had been among the former HFPA members who were paid $75,000 per year under the agreement to sell the organization to Eldridge Industries.
The Globes did not respond to a request for comment on the email to studios, or to explain why the members had been dropped as voters.
The awards are scheduled to take place on Jan.
- 9/26/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Disenchantment is filled with a plethora of characters. All of them serve a purpose in the narrative and help to take it forward. The most recurring one was Bean’s father, King Zøg, who ruled the kingdom of Dreamland for a long time. The monarch happens to appear in the show all through the five seasons, imparting some kind of lesson to the viewers. It feels as if, along with Bean, her father also went through a transformation.
Spoilers Ahead
King Zøg Of Dreamland
King Zøg comes across as an obnoxious monarch who has no clue how to run the kingdom that was handed down to him after his brother died. He does and says bizarre stuff from the seat of his throne and does not try to understand the qualms of the people he is ruling over. His relationship with his daughter was very complex in the beginning. Princess...
Spoilers Ahead
King Zøg Of Dreamland
King Zøg comes across as an obnoxious monarch who has no clue how to run the kingdom that was handed down to him after his brother died. He does and says bizarre stuff from the seat of his throne and does not try to understand the qualms of the people he is ruling over. His relationship with his daughter was very complex in the beginning. Princess...
- 9/4/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
‘Disenchantment’ Season 5 Recap & Ending Explained: What Happens To Dreamland In Post Credits Scene?
Netflix’s popular original animated series, Disenchantment, has been going for four seasons, and the fifth season is the last we will see of our beloved character Bean. The series follows Princess Bean, a rebellious adventurer who has suddenly found a purpose in saving her kingdom, Dreamland, from her evil mother, Queen Dagmar. The story so far has been chaotic but fun to watch. The satirical humor layered with black comedy worked every time. Season five, created and written by Matt Groening, has once again come back with the same characters, and this time, they are headed toward a series finale. It will be interesting to know where all the characters end up by the end of this ten-episode show.
Spoilers Ahead
Bean’s Plans
Disenchantment Season 5 begins with the aftermath of Bean being thrown off the palace balcony by her mother, Queen Dagmar. Fortunately, Bean is saved by a mermaid named Mora.
Spoilers Ahead
Bean’s Plans
Disenchantment Season 5 begins with the aftermath of Bean being thrown off the palace balcony by her mother, Queen Dagmar. Fortunately, Bean is saved by a mermaid named Mora.
- 9/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Deaths! Resurrections! Weddings! The dramatic reveal of a glamorous pig! If there’s even a single box that Disenchantment‘s series finale left unchecked, we’d be surprised to hear about it.
The last episode of Part 5, now streaming on Netflix, picks up in the heat of Bean’s final battle with her mother, the stripper-heeled Queen Dagmar. (“It almost makes me teary, this may be the last time I ever get to chase you down a cave below the castle!”) The battle takes a brief detour when Bean, Dagmar and Elfo accidentally trip on mushrooms, turning their fight-to-the-death into a “love pile.
The last episode of Part 5, now streaming on Netflix, picks up in the heat of Bean’s final battle with her mother, the stripper-heeled Queen Dagmar. (“It almost makes me teary, this may be the last time I ever get to chase you down a cave below the castle!”) The battle takes a brief detour when Bean, Dagmar and Elfo accidentally trip on mushrooms, turning their fight-to-the-death into a “love pile.
- 9/2/2023
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Disenchantment, Netflix’s fantasy animated series, has been one of the most-watched series on the streaming platform. A show that is layered with humor and almost nails the genre has finally reached its conclusion. Disenchantment has received positive to lukewarm responses in the past for its out-of-the-box style of narrative. Season five of this Netflix original was released on September 1, 2023. Creator Matt Groening is back to showcase the adventurous life of Princess Tiabeanie, aka Bean, and her quest to get rid of her evil mother, subsequently helping her father return to Dreamland as a king and not a prisoner. Will Bean and her friends get to chart their destiny at the end of this series finale?
True to the Disenchantment style of storytelling, season five begins right after Dagmar, the Evil Queen Mother of Bean, throws her daughter off the balcony in a final attempt to get hold of the kingdom.
True to the Disenchantment style of storytelling, season five begins right after Dagmar, the Evil Queen Mother of Bean, throws her daughter off the balcony in a final attempt to get hold of the kingdom.
- 9/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
All good things must come to an end, including Disenchantment. The critically acclaimed animated series will end with its upcoming fifth and final season set to premiere on September 1, 2023.
Netflix’s announcement of the final season included a lengthy teaser trailer and the first batch of season five photos featuring Bean and Elfo.
The 10-episode fifth season features the voices of Abbi Jacobson as Bean, Eric Andre as Luci, and Nat Faxon as Elfo. Additional voice actors include John Dimaggio, Tress MacNeille, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Meredith Hagner, David Herman, Sharon Horgan, Maurice Lamarche, Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West.
Meredith Hagner as Mora and Abbi Jacobson as Bean in ‘Disenchantment’ season 5 (Photo Cr. Netflix © 2023)
Netflix released this synopsis of season five:
“It all endeth here. The misadventures of hard-hitting, hard-drinking Queen Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo and her personal demon Luci culminate in an epic battle for...
Netflix’s announcement of the final season included a lengthy teaser trailer and the first batch of season five photos featuring Bean and Elfo.
The 10-episode fifth season features the voices of Abbi Jacobson as Bean, Eric Andre as Luci, and Nat Faxon as Elfo. Additional voice actors include John Dimaggio, Tress MacNeille, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Meredith Hagner, David Herman, Sharon Horgan, Maurice Lamarche, Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West.
Meredith Hagner as Mora and Abbi Jacobson as Bean in ‘Disenchantment’ season 5 (Photo Cr. Netflix © 2023)
Netflix released this synopsis of season five:
“It all endeth here. The misadventures of hard-hitting, hard-drinking Queen Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo and her personal demon Luci culminate in an epic battle for...
- 8/1/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Yeardley Smith is an American actress, artist and writer. She is best known for voicing Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons.
Yeardley Smith Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Yeardley Smith was born on July 3, 1964 (Yeardley Smith: Age 58) in Paris, France to Joseph Smith and Martha Mayor. The family moved to Washington D.C. in 1966 where Smith’s father worked as the first obituary writer for The Washington Post and her mother worked as a paper conservator for the Smithsonian Institute.
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Smith revealed how she got started acting.
“There was a woman in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C. who used to put on, in the summer she would gather up all the kids, she had eight kids of her own, all the kids in the neighborhood and we would lip sync to songs like from Sound of Music or Fiddler on the Roof or...
Yeardley Smith Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Yeardley Smith was born on July 3, 1964 (Yeardley Smith: Age 58) in Paris, France to Joseph Smith and Martha Mayor. The family moved to Washington D.C. in 1966 where Smith’s father worked as the first obituary writer for The Washington Post and her mother worked as a paper conservator for the Smithsonian Institute.
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Smith revealed how she got started acting.
“There was a woman in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C. who used to put on, in the summer she would gather up all the kids, she had eight kids of her own, all the kids in the neighborhood and we would lip sync to songs like from Sound of Music or Fiddler on the Roof or...
- 5/7/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Dagmar, the buxom blonde actress who became one of American television's first sex symbols on the pioneering NBC late-night show Broadway Open House, has died at the age of 79. Dagmar, who had been ill in recent years, died on October 9 at her home in West Virginia. Born Virginia Ruth Egnor, she became an overnight sensation as the sexy dumb blonde who appeared with comedians Jerry Lester and Morey Amsterdam on vaudeville-style Broadway Open House, an early 1950s forerunner to The Tonight Show. She also played a nurse on Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater, briefly hosted her own TV show, Dagmar's Canteen, and was a regular panelist on ABC's Masquerade Party. Dagmar married three times, but outlived all three of her husbands, including actor Danny Dayton and bandleader Dick Hinds. She is survived by three sisters, three brothers, an aunt and numerous nieces and nephews.
- 10/15/2001
- WENN
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