Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror about the bloody pursuit of beauty. "There's only one Cinderella, the rest of us are the ugly stepsister.

“The Ugly Stepsister” isn’t for the weak-stomached ... In her attempt to add complexity to a well-known tale, Blichfeldt doesn’t entirely escape the trap of fairy tale good-bad objectivism.

The family-friendly studio’s more-wholesome-than-horrifying approach gives Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plenty of room to push back with “The Ugly Stepsister,” a deliciously ...

Films are made over many days, but some days are more memorable, and important, than others. Imagine yourself in ten years looking back on this production. What day from your film’s development, ...

In her Sundance-bowing feature, the director Emilie Blichfeldt reimagines the fairytale ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts ...

It all started with Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt envisioning ... on the classic lore was the first step of Blichfeldt’s “The Ugly Stepsister,” which is debuting at Sundance on ...

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 ...

Norwegian horror fable The Ugly Stepsister has debuted with a near ... the movie from first-time filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt earned a critics' rating of 96% from 28 reviews at the time of writing.

When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated ... coupled with the anachronistic music choices, help Blichfeldt in conjuring a world that reveals the more grotesque elements of beauty.

Surely, they have their own tale? In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt recasts the story of these “ugly” young women as a horrifying quest for beauty. Recall, in the Brothers ...