With acerbic accuracy, The Ground Beneath My Feet devastatingly depicts the disturbances that working women must withstand when prioritizing their profession over their personal lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

The director shows there's always a layer of pain behind a successful career [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 31, 2021

It benefits from a compelling performance from Valerie Pachner, but even that can't stop it from slowly falling apart when it engages with topics such as alienation, loneliness, and the stressful business life of postmodernity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

You can see many of the ingredients are there to transform it into something more memorable, yet it never quite comes together.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 29, 2020

Marie Kreutzer's film - with all its chilly details - is an effective study of a life at breaking point.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2020

The Ground Beneath My Feet has admirable ideas and an intriguing premise at the core of its story, but the execution is sadly flat and lacking in the kind of energy that could have made its unreliable narrator conceit truly compelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2020

[An] elegant and mysterious psychological drama...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 18, 2020

First-rate Austrian drama is a damning diagnosis of the neurosis at the heart of contemporary society.

| Jun 17, 2020

It's terrifyingly credible in its depiction of the stress and slog of extreme work pressure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2020

[A] tightly focused psychological drama...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2020

It's a truly remarkable performance in what is an engaging, tense and ultimately rewarding film.

| Jun 11, 2020

This is sophisticated queer filmmaking whose concerns stretch beyond the ghetto or the boardroom.

| May 26, 2020

Well-crafted clinically observed art house tale of a modern-day business woman trapped in a rotten job.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2020

Here director Marie Kreutzer examines the unknown. The mysterious. While giving it the look and tone of a thriller. Though it isn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2020

The Ground Beneath My Feet is writer-director Marie Kreutzer's take on the 21st century working woman. It's a jarring confrontation, a mirror placed in front of the audience to show how we're working ourselves to death.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 13, 2019

[Marie] Kreutzer paints a... nuanced portrait of the dehumanizing effects of the aesthetically-sterile, male-dominated business world.

| Oct 10, 2019

"The Ground Beneath My Feet" consistently serves as a powerful showcase for the talented Pachner, who manages a performance that is both distant and achingly vulnerable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2019

Considering it's a film about working way too hard, it doesn't seem to learn from its own central lesson.

| Sep 1, 2019

The performances are strong and it has a creepy, ominous way of moving along the story that is effective.

| Aug 23, 2019

The Ground Beneath My Feet thus raises the age-old and sadly still relevant question: can a woman ever be truly free when living in the patriarchy?

| Aug 21, 2019