The Girl and the Spider

Regular $14/ $10 Matinee
Member $10/ $5 Matinee

Genre

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Release Year

2022

Director

Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher

Producer

Adrian Blaser | Aline Schmid

Cast

Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amaut

Country

Switzerland

Runtime

98 min

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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.

In German with English Subtitles

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