Earwig

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Earwig

Released Jul 15, 2022

1h 54m

Drama

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47 Reviews

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Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...

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Critics Consensus

Perplexing, unsettling, and alluring in nearly equal measure, Earwig may be as difficult to understand as it is to forget.

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Adam Nayman

The Ringer

Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s grim fairy tale is titled after a tiny, burrowing insect, and like its namesake it furiously digs its way into your consciousness.

Dec 8, 2022

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Peter Debruge

Variety

“Earwig” teeters on the brink of ennui for most of its taxing two-hour running time, asking us to care about characters the film hasn’t really defined.

Jul 19, 2022

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

There’s something essential missing from Earwig and it’s not for want of inspiration or creativity. Hadžihalilović's latest is both too hazy to make a great adaptation and too focused to be genuinely dream-like.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 15, 2022

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Maxance Vincent

Film Speak

A great premise poorly executed, and an absolute shame for fans of gothic horror.

Rated: D-

Jul 13, 2025

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Hector A. Gonzalez

The Movie Buff

Lucile Hadžihalilović continues her streak of crafting nightmarish fever-dream-esque films with her latest, “Earwig,” which is a weird film that does take its time to settle down, but when it does, it’s pretty fascinating.

Rated: B-

Sep 8, 2024

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Soham Gadre

Vague Visages

The magic of Hadzihalilovic’s Earwig comes in the form of its suggestion that viewers abandon their expectations and preconceptions about what cinema should be and what a story can be.

Jan 9, 2024

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Ricardo d

Não consigo ver o que os "críticos" as vezes enxergam para qualificar certos filmes. Esse aqui o que salva é a fotografia e cenografia. A dramaturgia a la Buto, é muito entendiante. Parei o filme diversas vezes, por sono. Dai temos até uma boa atuação da criança e do Albert, mas qual o sentido de tudo? As relações, os motivos, os significados? E aquele fim?? Nossa, decepcionante.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/14/24

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avindu g

Of course he is the father but what if a man cannot father beyond the limit of caretaker what a household looks like is visualised well the silence the heartbreaking loneliness of Mia may talk to many of us. Melting ice with anxious eavesdropping signals the child is a burden for Albert. He deface his lover scarring her for being unable to get rid of his burden, she still follow Albert leaving fortunes and getting pitied with free drinks thats the low she falls to be with him. Celeste scars him for life same as herself through which they become one. Outward grpahic nature induce the natural perspective of the society towards such a union. Earwig is a love story that cries for us the tears of living through life.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Valerii Ege D

When you don't have any story to tell, you start to depend on cinematic techniques. Director has created a very intense atmosphere for sure. The sound design was very good but can't say the same thing for the storytelling. Because there is none. The whole movie is like a lesson for students about "how to use cinematic techniques to create unquestionable art movies". Probably this is her style. This was my first Lucile Hadzihalilovic movie. Probably will stay as the last one.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/05/22

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Audience Member

The first 30 minutes had no dialogue, it was effectively depressing and it then dragged on for another 90 minutes without any entertainment value.. the visual art will leave you feeling like you wasted 2 hours... I read somewhere that this feels like a David Lynch piece, but more dark and loose, I agree.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Is it too much to ask what and why? I'd like a sequel and a resolution to this story that had no ending.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Synopsis

Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave...

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Producer: Jean des Forêts, Amélie Jacquis, Andrew Starke
Screenwriter: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Geoff Cox
Distributor: Juno Films
Production Co: Frakas Productions, Film 4, Petit Film, BFI Film Fund, Anti-Worlds
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 15, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 54m

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