Earwig is a 2021 drama film co-written and directed by Lucile Hadžihalilović, based on the eponymous novel by Brian Catling. [1] [2] It is a co-production of Britain, Belgium and France. The film premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. [3]

Jul 15, 2022 · It’s hard to tell if there’s too much plot or not enough in the new horror-drama “Earwig,” a lucid, dreamy melodrama about a girl with ice teeth and her cranky middle-aged caretaker.

Earwig: Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. With Paul Hilton, Romane Hemelaers, Romola Garai, Alex Lawther. A 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of …

Oct 25, 2022 · In an unnamed city in postwar Europe, Albert Scellinc looks after a young girl, Mia, in a desolate apartment. Mia does not speak and requires dentures. An elaborate and regular ritual of their mute, mechanized existence involves Mia putting on a headgear that collects her saliva in receptacles.

"Earwig is Hadzihalilovic's first English language film, but it’s her dreary discombobulating of space and time that makes her newest flick stand out" THE PLAYLIST - Sept 7, 2021 - Andrew Bundy. "It does show how Hadžhalilović is a rare breed among genre directors today, especially those specializing in body horror.

Earwig and the Witch (Japanese: アーヤと魔女, Hepburn: Āya to Majo, lit. ''Aya and the Witch'') is a 2020 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki and with a screenplay by Keiko Niwa and Emi Gunji. It is based on the novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones.

Jul 25, 2023 · Earwig is a film that suggests far more often than it informs. Even when the narrative flickers into something more tangible, it doesn’t take Hadzihalilovic long before she destabilises us with an unexpected turn or elliptical shift, keeping clear cohesion and understanding always at arm’s length.

Short synopsis : A mesmerizing fable of long-repressed secrets and awakening memories from the mysterious and oneiric world of Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Long synopsis : Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed.

Oct 15, 2021 · Earwig is an unsettling, enigmatic film that keeps its secrets. Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s adaptation of Brian Catling’s 2019 novel moves through a hallucinatory world centred around a young girl with ice cubes for teeth.