Well now… that was something! For the first half hour, Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister reads like a dramatic period piece centered on the struggle for survival of “A widow with saggy tits and two hopeless daughters”. The solution? A makeover of the elder daughter, to captivate and marry the handsome prince.

The makeover introduces us to some body horror that, quite frankly, is difficult to look at, and from that point on, things get pretty pretty gnarly. Still, it’s beautiful film making that will stick in your head long after the credits have rolled. And Blichfeldt’s feminist messaging leaves no question that, although we still have a long way to go, things are better now.