The Sparrow in the Chimney

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Play Time: 117 mins
Drama
The Sparrow in the Chimney

Overview:
Karen and Markus live with their children in Karen’s parents’ house. Karen’s sister Jule travels with her family to Markus’ birthday party. While Karen takes everyone’s breath away with her domineering manner, Jule is the complete opposite. Gradually a front forms against Karen until everything escalates into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to create the new.

Original Title:Der Spatz im Kamin
Status: Released (2024-10-10)
Awards:3 wins & 11 nominations total
Screen:Ramon Zürcher
Productions: Zürcher Film, SRF, SRG SSR
Production Countries: Switzerland
Spoken Languages: Deutsch
The Sparrow in the Chimney
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Brent Marchant

Review text:

To be blunt, I really dislike arthouse films that give the genre a bad name, yet writer-director Ramon Zürcher’s third feature outing regrettably does just that. This pretentious, meandering exercise in allegedly profound cinema falls flat shortly after it begins and never recovers, ....

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