Emilie Blichfeldt

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Matt Adcock |Emilie Blichfeldt

★★★½ Why hello… Here’s The Ugly Stepsister, where director Emilie Blichfeldt flips the Cinderella myth on its powdered wig, delivering a gorgeously grim tale of envy, identity, tapeworms and revenge. Lea Myren stuns as Elvira, the maligned stepsister reimagined not as a villain, but as a complex, wounded soul forced to play second fiddle to Thea Sofie Loch Næss’s chillingly composed Cinderella. Shot like a poisoned dream by Marcel Zyskind and scored with eerie beauty by Kaada, this Norwegian...

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Nadya Martinez |Emilie Blichfeldt

The unsettling and brilliantly twisted Norwegian body horror “The Ugly Stepsister,” takes the classic Cinderella fairly tale to an entirely new bleak and Grimm direction. Co-written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut, the film masterfully captures an emotional and horrifying extension of society’s unrealistic beauty standards blending horror with reality.