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Copenhagen 1919: A young female worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmara, who runs an underground adoption agency. Their strong bond grows stronger, but her world falls apart when she discovers the shocking truth behind her actions. Denmark’s official submission for Best International Feature Film in 2025 at the 97th Academy Awards. I really liked the promise of revealing society as the real monster, not the people it has destroyed. However, telling the story through a character who is solely a victim takes the film away from that goal. This is not a social critique where all the evil is focused on one villain and everyone else is excused for their good intentions. On the contrary, it was meant to show that in such a brutal context, malice cannot be easily separated from compassion. The tone was also a bit more melancholic than anything else, leaving the viewer indifferent to what is happening on screen.