Confurius and Amuat play their characters as enigmas - one downcast, the other upbeat - in an oblique drama full of unrequited emotion, where proximity and intimacy are constantly confused.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2024

The ensemble keeps the audience intrigued and guessing... [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 16, 2022

The film spins a web of unexpressed emotions in conflict, weaving its magic through a waltz of loneliness and longing, attraction and rejection, in confined places where bodies sometimes move to the same rhythms, sometimes in opposition.

| Aug 29, 2022

A controlled chaos, a narrative with touches of absurd humor, eccentric characters, a touch of melancholy and certain lyricism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2022

While the unspoken truths that connect them intrigue for a while, that intrigue turns out to be all the film has to offer, and it's just not enough to build a film on, even a film as technically well-made as this.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 10, 2022

For viewers seeking a verité account of Millennial grappling, The Girl and the Spider likely isn’t for you. But for anyone who takes their milchkaffee with a side of weird, prepare to get bitten.

| May 5, 2022

A work that succeeds on multiple levels and reestablishes Roman and Silver Zürcher as filmmakers of the highest order.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 4, 2022

The Girl and the Spider is a brilliantly maddening thing, a drama that plays by its own perplexing rules.

| Apr 28, 2022

As in their first film, the Zürchers bring a fresh perspective to the connection between humans and the wild world, specifically within the story’s domestic trappings.

| Apr 15, 2022

Narratively cagey as it may seem, “The Girl and the Spider” clearly, and affectingly, muses on farewells, change and our enduring or fleeting bonds to people and the places where we loved them.

| Apr 15, 2022

This enigmatic, poetic film, co-directed by brothers Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, instils intimations of the cosmic into a deliberately ordinary narrative frame.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2022

This is one of those quotidian films where not much actually happens, but supposedly everything happens. It is subtle to the point of being obtuse....The Girl and the Spider is lovely and so gentle that it is just plain dull.

| Apr 8, 2022

It's that dreamlike quality that makes the Zürchers' work so memorable and resonant because it allows the performances to shine above plotthe just left of center reality allowing the actors to exist inside their heads as much as out.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 7, 2022

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.

| Original Score: B | Apr 7, 2022

The film demands and rewards repeat viewings; it’s different, and more entrancing, every time.

| Apr 7, 2022

Amid all these gazes, some desirous, some jealous, there is much longing, but also loss, as the distracted Mara slowly comes to terms with the disappearance of her social web.

| Mar 11, 2022

Scenes accrue off-kilter visual details as though they are half-remembered dreams. The atmosphere is destabilizing, like teetering on the edge of a cliff.

| Oct 10, 2021

Nothing much seems to happen, yet the images remain long afterwards, like a tantalizing vision of quotidian strangeness. The spider lets us go at the end, but barely.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2021

The performances are uniformly wonderful, and, in the end, the filmmakers achieve something sublime.

| Original Score: B | Sep 16, 2021

Unique existential melodrama about change.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 12, 2021