The Strange Little Cat
Directed and edited with surgical precision, sometimes funny and other times indeterminately disturbing, ?The Strange Little Cat? is a light-hearted experiment that confirms the invisible magic of domesticity in a flawlessly choreographed carnival of people, pets and objects.
An average German family, a middle-class Berlin apartment, a day like any other. On that specific day, culminated in a big dinner, friends, relatives and neighbors come and go, electrical appliances get repaired, children and cats vie for the adults’ attention, while tenants and guests do the cooking, tell stories or discover unorthodox methods of communication under the watchful eye of a fiery-red feline.
Closely observing the goings-on during this seemingly uneventful day, while embellishing the action with small surrealist touches and bizarre dialogue, Ramon Zürcher arranges the family’s tedious routine into a small miracle of chain reactions and coincidences, reminiscent of Jacques Tati’s optical gags or Chantal Akerman’s essay films.
Directed and edited with surgical precision, sometimes funny and other times indeterminately disturbing, “The Strange Little Cat” is a light-hearted experiment that confirms the invisible magic of domesticity in a flawlessly choreographed carnival of people, pets and objects. Th.P.
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Εναλλακτικοί τίτλοι / Alternative titles: The Strange Little Cat / Das merkwürdige Kätzchen
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Ramon Zürcher
Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Ramon Zürcher
Φωτογραφία / DoP: Alexander Haßkerl
Μουσική / Music: Thee More Shallows
Μοντάζ / Editor: Ramon Zürcher
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Jenny Schily, Anjorka Strechel, Mia Kasalo, Luk Pfaff, Matthias Dittmer, Armin Marewski
Γερμανία / Germany
2013
Εγχρωμο / Color
72’
Γερμανικά / German
* Screens on 25th September
