The Girl and the Spider

The Girl and the Spider (Das Mädchen und die Spinne) is a Swiss drama film, directed by Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher and released in 2021. 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 2021 Berlin 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 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

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".