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The Ugly Stepsister

The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren) (2025)

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The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren) screened at the Overlook Film Festival, 4 April 2025 When, at the beginning of writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister (Den stygge stesøsteren), the widow Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) arrives, along with her daughters 18-year-old Elvira (Lea Myrne) and the premenstrual Alma (Flo Fagerli), to marry the widower Otto…

The Substance

The Substance (2024)

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The Substance had its UK première at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024, 20 Aug The Substance opens with a diptych of prologues, showing, in reverse order, a terminal condition and its tentative, experimental cure. The first image is a top-down shot of a chicken’s egg out of its shell on a pale blue surface. Injected…