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Metascore
9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 95TheWrapCarlos AguilarTheWrapCarlos AguilarThe Ground Beneath My Feet is essential viewing for our anxiety-ridden times.
- 90The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThis is crafty, first-rank filmmaking.
- 90Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleKreutzer, who wrote the screenplay, proves especially adept, in conjunction with editor Ulrike Kofler, at the natural suspense of pinging between Lola’s professional and personal lives, and where the vulnerabilities in one bleed into the other. It’s a steady tension that’s greatly enhanced by Kreutzer’s spatially conscious visual style.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThis is at once an accessible art house drama about Lola’s emotionally frayed sisterly and amorous ties and a clinically observed portrait of a 21st-century woman trying to stay afloat in a ruthlessly profit-oriented economy where feelings are the enemy of efficiency.
- 80Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallThere’s a discourse going on here about family and memory, about what we lose if we turn ourselves into work machines who can “pull a 48” (go for 48 hours without sleep) that leeches subtly into the fabric of Kreutzer’s psycho-drama, buoyed by a fine use of setting, camera focus and colour.
- 80VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangWithout proselytizing, and without distracting from the main thrust of her gripping, intelligent psychodrama, Kreutzer and her predominately female team have created a story both knottily specific and usefully general in its understanding that for many women, an ultimately untenable level of watchful self-control is the price of ambition.
- 80The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThe Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThis oppressive, atmospheric Austrian drama takes the kind of alpha female high achiever familiar from Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, but undermines her with splinters of Hitchcockian paranoia.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe transgressive threat approaches and recedes like thunder, leaving us with a study in loneliness.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisThe Ground Beneath My Feet consistently serves as a powerful showcase for the talented Pachner, who manages a performance that is both distant and achingly vulnerable.