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The Strange Little Cat(Das merkwürdige Kätzchen)

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Germany · 2013
1h 12m
Director Ramon Zürcher
Starring Anjorka Strechel, Jenny Schily, Matthias Dittmer, Luk Pfaff
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family

Loosely inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, this film focuses on the day-to-day life of a middle-class family in their Berlin apartment. As time passes and different family members talk about the things that happened during the day, the mundane begins to seem strangely surreal.

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Slant Magazine by

As pleasant and effortless as Ramon Zürcher makes his formal persnicketiness and Akermanian aesthetic rigor seem, his film feels lightweight.

83

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

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

Variety by Peter Debruge

Despite all that it withholds, The Strange Little Cat ultimately proves a far more revealing form of family portrait.

70

The Dissolve by Scott Tobias

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.

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.

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