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The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfelt, Second Sight Films, 2025) In her feature debut, Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfelt takes a somewhat modern, cynical, body horror swing at - a story audiences worldwide will be familiar with thanks to the endless film adaptations (mostly by Disney) and, especially in the UK, the annual tradition of a pantomime performances - Cinderella . Blichfelt's take switches up the fairytale completely, making one of the infamous ugly stepsisters, Elvira (Lea Myren) the film's protagonist and casts Cinderella - or rather, Agnes - (Thea Sofie Loch Naess) as almost the film's villain. As the story goes, in a mythical Kingdom, Elvira's mother, Rebekka (Ane Dahl Trop) marries an old man for his wealth and in so doing brings his daughter, Agnes, into the family. After her new husband dies, Rebekka must find a new source of income and, by chance, it is announced that Prince Julian (Isac Calmroth) is inviting all the single women in the Kingdom to ...