Girl and the Spider
Deliciously ambiguous…[The] Zürchers’ movies are like prisms, capturing the things people do when they think no one’s watching.
The Girl and the Spider
As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. Furniture is moved, walls painted, cupboards built. Amid all the hustle and bustle, secret longings and desires come to the surface and coalesce around the roommates as well as around Lisa’s mother Astrid, the movers, the girls’ old neighbors, the neighbors’ cat, Lisa’s new neighbor and an ever-expanding cast of characters. Day turns into night and one final party in the apartment. When the last box is moved, the fragments of their lives remain.
The Zürcher brothers compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships that is at once a study of everyday life, a fairytale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world. Following The Strange Little Cat, The Girl and the Spider is the second installment in a trilogy about human togetherness, a ballad about the need for closeness and the pain of separation.
Winner - Best Director, Encounters, Berlinale
Winner - FIPRESCI Prize, Berlinale
"Thrilling, thrilling cinema. Order and chaos fighting it out at the level of form and content." -Erika Balsom, The Film Comment Podcast
“Wondrous.” -The New York Times
“A symphony of separation and solitude.” -Allan Hunter, Screen
International
“Deliciously ambiguous…[The] Zürchers’ movies are like prisms, capturing the things people do when they think no one’s watching…and when they desperately wish they were.” -Variety
“Terribly exciting.” -Rogerebert.com
The Zürcher brothers compose a poetic panopticon of forms of human relationships that is at once a study of everyday life, a fairytale and a psychological portrait of a brittle world. Following The Strange Little Cat, The Girl and the Spider is the second installment in a trilogy about human togetherness, a ballad about the need for closeness and the pain of separation.
Winner - Best Director, Encounters, Berlinale
Winner - FIPRESCI Prize, Berlinale
"Thrilling, thrilling cinema. Order and chaos fighting it out at the level of form and content." -Erika Balsom, The Film Comment Podcast
“Wondrous.” -The New York Times
“A symphony of separation and solitude.” -Allan Hunter, Screen
International
“Deliciously ambiguous…[The] Zürchers’ movies are like prisms, capturing the things people do when they think no one’s watching…and when they desperately wish they were.” -Variety
“Terribly exciting.” -Rogerebert.com
Genre
Drama,
LGBTQ
Runtime
99
Language
German
Director
Ramon,
Silvan Zürcher
Writer(s)
Ramon,
Silvan Zürcher
Cast
Henriette Confurius,
Liliane Amuat,
Ursina Lardi
Awards:
Winner, Encounters Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Berlin International Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
With “The Girl and the Spider,” the Swiss filmmakers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, the identical twins behind the exceptional debut “The Strange Little Cat,” have made their second feature in a row that invites viewers to get lost in an apartment — or in this case, more than one. Set over two days, “The ...
Played at
Royal 4.15.22 - 4.21.22
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