Express News Service
A spider crawls on Lisa’s (Liliane Amuat) back and Mara (Henriette Confurius) creates uninterrupted surface from Lisa’s back, her shoulders, her clothes to Mara’s hand.
They exchange the spider hand to hand in smooth, lyrical motions and then transfer it back on the wall.
It’s the new Zürcher brothers’ film, Das Mädchen und die Spinne or The Girl and the Spider, premiering at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival.
And just like this smooth transition of movements and energies where there would otherwise be chaos, the brothers craft another tale within interiors (like their earlier feature The Strange Little Cat) with abundant chaotic forces at play but with filmmaking that is fluid and always in control, showing a lot and trusting us to take in little by little.