Blichfeldt, who wrote and directed the feature, wanted to explore the story not from Cinderella’s viewpoint ... believed that ratcheting up the body horror was a natural fit to get her message ...

Agnes is the Cinderella character here ... saving her affections for a lowly stable boy (Malte Gårdinger). She may have true love, but Agnes’ life is marked by misfortune.

Maybe once upon a time we were supposed to identify with Cinderella ... this world that its sinister magic rings true, and partly because some of the story’s more twisted elements actually ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story: A young woman ... s appropriately gruesome experiments with body horror also underscore Elvira’s growing desperation ...

But Blichfeldt’s Norwegian farce leans into the story’s most unsavory aspects, turning them into a wildly visceral body-horror parable ... Næss), the story’s Cinderella stand-in.