63
As pleasant and effortless as Ramon Zürcher makes his formal persnicketiness and Akermanian aesthetic rigor seem, his film feels lightweight.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
100
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Mr. Zürcher has concocted something intimate yet otherworldly with this highly original debut.
91
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Ramon Zürcher’s miniature debut, The Strange Little Cat, is one of the most confident and unusual first features in recent memory.
83
This kind of vérité surrealism doesn’t come along very often, and the glorious oddness that Zurcher manages to infuse into even the most routinely domestic activities is really the gift the film keeps on giving.
80
Despite all that it withholds, The Strange Little Cat ultimately proves a far more revealing form of family portrait.
70
A beautiful, mysterious, beguiling cinematic doodle, and an absolute master class in mise-en-scène, unfolding in odd, fragmented frames and precisely choreographed movement within those frames.
75
RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley
Strange and creepy and entertaining.
80
Village Voice by Stephanie Zacharek
This odd little wonder captures the delicate textures and shadowy half-secrets of family life, mapping them out in a mosaic of fragmented dialogue and half-poetic, half-prosaic images.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
There are so many witty touches and sharp little observations here that The Strange Little Cat can be forgiven for ultimately making no dramatic statement.