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  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary 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 neighbo...

Directed By: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

Written By: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 38 m

The Girl and the Spider

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary 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 neighbo...

Directed By: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

Written By: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
91% Positive
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
91% Positive
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
May 5, 2022
Meticulously crafted with powerfully nuanced performances, the film represents the best of what European cinema has to offer and is easily among the year’s best.
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91
Sep 18, 2021
The Girl and the Spider’s lovely concluding shot visualizes this fading relationship, and stands as the filmmakers’ final statement on the fleeting nature of love in all its forms. It is both bitter and sweet. So is this beautiful film.
By Christopher Schobert FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 15, 2022
Unlike Mara, the writer-directors of The Girl and the Spider can shape and control their story. They orchestrate a closing sequence of high-impact lyricism, bringing their tale of the mystery-infused quotidian to a shimmering, open-ended conclusion.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
83
Sep 18, 2021
This is an odd film of poetic abstractions and ellipses, but consistently fascinating in its unrepentant coyness.
By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 8, 2022
My own taste runs to different modes of poetic cinema, but I credit The Girl and the Spider for the seemingly paradoxical clarity of its mysterious vision.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 7, 2022
It pays off in a work of gorgeous stylistic precision where cautious glances and wistful anecdotes melt together to form a melancholy arthouse jewel about the tearing down of one woman’s identity.
By Mark Keizer FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 24, 2022
Zürcher spins byzantine webs of audiovisual stimuli from an ultimately modest dramatic core, and not only is the larger narrative design unclear before it’s finally revealed, it’s easy to get stuck dwelling on the minutia along the way.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.4
80% Positive
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
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20% Negative
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0% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company Beauvoir Films, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), Zürcher Film
Release Date Apr 8, 2022
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://the-girl-and-the-spider.com/
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Awards

German Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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