T he iconic fairy tale of Cinderella is getting a wild twist with the Sundance hit, The Ugly Stepsister. The movie hails from Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt in her fe ...
Following in the bloody footsteps of Coralie Fargeat’s 'The Substance,' a new wave of female filmmakers is reinventing body ...
It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning a bloody shoe. “I’ve been working on female characters that are struggling with their bodies through my short films ...
In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale from the perspective of a stepsister desperate for beauty. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone ...
Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister underlines the base grotesquerie of the original fairy tale. Photo: Marcel Zyskind The film begins with wide-eyed Elvira (Lea Myren ...
The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International. From director Emilie ...
thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical alternate 1900s, The Ugly Stepsister shifts the spotlight to the familiar ...
Fresh off its Sundance Film Festival premiere, the movie from first-time filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt earned a critics' rating of 96% from 28 reviews at the time of writing. A gorier take on the ...
Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there ...
Having taken the Sundance Film Festival by storm, director Emilie Blichfeldt wowed critics' with her movie debut introducing her take on the very grotesque version of the classic Disney princess ...
It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning a bloody shoe. "I've been working on female characters that are struggling with their bodies through my short films," she says.