The Girl And The Spider
Directed by Ramon Zürcher & Silvan Zürcher
Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted, walls painted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up, yearnings fill the room and an emotional rollercoaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.
Twin brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships, that meanders between a study of everyday life, a fairy-tale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world. After their Berlinale-hit “The Strange Little Cat” (2013), “The Girl and the Spider” is the second instalment of a trilogy about human togetherness. A ballad about the need for closeness and the pain of separation.
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Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger, André M. Hennicke, Ivan Georgiev, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet, Lea Draeger, Sabine Timoteo and Birte Schnöink
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German / 2021 / 98’
Das Mädchen Und Die Spinne
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FICTION - Drama
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Directors Ramon & Silvan Zürcher Screenwriters Ramon & Silvan Zürcher Director of Photography Alexander Haßkerl Production Design Sabina Winkler & Mortimer Chen Editors Ramon Zürcher & Katharina Bhend Costume Designer Anne- Sophie Raemy Music Philipp Moll Sound Design Felix Bussmann Line Producer Andrea Blaser Producers Aline Schmid & Adrian Blaser Production company Beauvoir Films Co-Producers Zürcher Film & Swiss Radio and Television
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DCP I 1:1.85 I Color I 5.1
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Berlin Film Festival 2021
Best Director Berlinale Encounters, FIPRESCI award
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"Festivals and arthouse audiences should response to its poetic handling and a needling, dust-dry drollery reminiscent of Roy Andersson.” SCREEN
"Spread out across six small apartments and the micro-community which resides there, “The Girl and the Spider” turns primarily on Lisa, moving out, and her roommate Mara, left behind. (...) the future of several relationships hang in the balance as emotions swing to opposite extremes and loyalties are established and broken.” VARIETY
"The Girl And The Spider confirms the Zürcher Brother's talent.” LE MONDE -
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