The Girl and the Spider (German: Das Mädchen und die Spinne) is a 2021 Swiss drama film written and directed by Ramon and Silvan Zürcher. The film centres on Mara (Henriette Confurius) and Lisa (Liliane Amuat), two women who have been living together, and portrays the emotional complications as Lisa moves out to a new apartment.
The film premiered in the Encounters program at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, where the Zürchers won the award for Best Director in the program alongside Denis Côté for Social Hygiene (Hygiène sociale). It had its North American premiere at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival.
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Cast
Henriette Confurius as Mara
Liliane Amuat as Lisa
Ursina Lardi as Astrid
Flurin Giger as Jan
André Hennicke as Jurek
Ivan Georgiev as Markus
Dagna Litzenberger-Vinet as Kerstin
Lea Draeger as Nora
Sabine Timoteo as Karen
Birte Schnöink as
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 93% rating based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The critics consensus reads: "Beneath its deceptively placid surface, The Girl and the Spider grapples with deeply meaningful questions of personal identity in the face of fundamental change." On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".