Eight years on from their landmark debut The Strange Little Cat (2013), Swiss brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher have made their long-awaited return with The Girl and the Spider, the second in a planned trilogy of films about human connection and the slippery nature of kinship. A genuinely sui generis work, The Strange Little Cat announced a singular worldview in which cinematic time and space are made to enfold and reanimate the messiness of everyday life. In The Girl and the Spider, the Zürchers apply this philosophy to a slightly larger story: set mostly in two apartments over two days (in contrast to the The Strange Little Cat’s one apartment-one day scenario), the film follows a pair of roommates, Mara (Henriette Confurius) and Lisa (Liliane Amuat), as the latter moves out of their shared apartment and into a new flat across town.From this threadbare setup, the Zürchers fashion an...
- 3/26/2021
- MUBI
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