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Copenhagen, 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. Their bond grows stronger, but her world falls apart when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work. Denmark’s official submission for Best International Feature Film. 2025 at the 97th Academy Awards. I loved the promise that society would be revealed as the real monster, not the people it destroyed. But telling the story through a character who is purely a victim takes the film away from that goal. This is not a social critique, where all the evil is focused on one villain and everyone else is excused for their good intentions. On the contrary, it was meant to show how, in such a brutal context, villainy and compassion are not so easily separated. The tone was also a bit more melancholic than anything else – leaving the viewer indifferent to what was happening on screen.
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