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THE SPARROW IN THE

CHIMNEY

Everything is beautiful at first to overcome the emotional Ramon Zürcher harbors and finds
glance. Until the mesmerising distance that separates her new meanings in the contrast
photograph of “The Sparrow from her children, and Jule between cruelty and compassion,
in the Chimney” (2024), the (Britta Hammelstein), who is beauty and horror, trauma and
perfect house and idyllic lives more affectionate and cheerful. resilience—almost like a delicate
begin to crack, revealing the Living together in the same balance between butterflies,
scars of generational trauma and house increases the resentment sparrows, and cormorants,
clandestine emotions just below and tensions that have built up, animals that take on symbolic
the surface. creating pressure that eventually significance throughout the
boils over and blurs the fine lines film. This is, in fact, the film that
The narrative focuses on a between reality, dreams, desire, concludes the Zürcher brothers'
family reunion between two and freedom. “animal trilogy,” centered on
very different sisters (and their family dynamics, following “The
respective families): Karen Seeking to escape conventional Strange Little Cat” (2013) and
(Maren Eggert), the older sister, norms and expectations, the “The Girl and the Spider” (2021).
who is withdrawn and unable domestic setting imagined by MARISA VITORINO FIGUEIREDO

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