Synopsis
Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.
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Cast
- Valerie PachnerLola
- Pia HierzeggerConny
- Mavie HörbigerElise
- Michelle BarthelBirgit
- Marc BenjaminSebastian
- Axel SichrovskyHerr Bacher
- Dominic Marcus SingerJürgen
- Meo WulfClemens
- Bernd BirkhahnHerr Degenhardt
- Axel WandtkeHerr Giese
Recommandations
- 95
TheWrap
The Ground Beneath My Feet is essential viewing for our anxiety-ridden times. - 90
The New York Times
This is crafty, first-rank filmmaking. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Kreutzer, 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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This 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. - 80
Screen Daily
There’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. - 80
Variety
Without 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. - 80
The Observer (UK)
This 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. - 80
The Guardian
The transgressive threat approaches and recedes like thunder, leaving us with a study in loneliness.
