« The young woman with a needle », pique drama – liberation

Like the tales of childhood, Brothers Grimm Or Andersen, some films are nightmares to which it is difficult to forgive. Rightly or wrongly, in the abysses of the imaginary it is not always easy to distinguish between unnecessary violence and the Catharsis de Choc. So happens to us The young woman with a needlehated film, estimated film, depending on whether it was seen in the official selection in Cannes or the Strange Festival – because not the same delirium, not the same horizon of cultural waiting.

Is a beautiful and unpleasant, badly friendly film, necessarily detestable? We will reveal the story as little as possible to leave the surprise. What happens to Karoline, the calamitous heroine, recalls the hard destinies in Dw Griffith and Tod Browning, and is so amazing that the spectator is left to be scandalized or rejoiced, confronted with the very dark beauty of the film. We hold in his favor that he saves himself by saving the heroine. That after so many abominations, the last scene – the embrace of a woman and an orphan – sounds with a note of hope, livid light, a little monstrous, Happy End by aberration. It changes everything, contradicts the tortured nihilism from which the film seemed to take pleasure until then, Lars von trier. By the way Di