Body dissatisfaction can be minor, too bad my nose is so big, or it can be severe, I hate everything about my body.Once you start to think that you have a flaw, your mind runs with the distraction ...

Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt on her reframing the Cinderella story as body horror ... women who have trouble with their body image, and who are struggling to fit within femininity.

mirroring the visceral experience of having a body as a woman.” Beyond historically accurate medical procedures and story elements that never made it into Disney’s cheery 1950 “Cinderella ...

Study: Body Weight Perceptions Among Youth From 6 Countries and Associations With Social Media Use: Findings From the International Food Policy Study. Image Credit: Kaspars Grinvalds ...

We know, of course, that none of this will end well, and Blichfeldt gives us every gnarly, disgusting consequence in agonizing detail, be it vomit, blood, severed body parts, or some combination ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... which she pores over in her free time. As Elvira yearns, her family’s circumstances change dramatically.

Sundance: Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt swaps tapeworms for silkworms in a gory Grimm Brothers update about the body-horror extremes of the pursuit of beauty. It’s tough times out there ...

Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... Blichfedlt’s appropriately gruesome experiments with body horror also underscore Elvira’s growing desperation to be beautiful. Myren’s performance ...