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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Film Fest Knox: The Sparrow in the Chimney
Category: Film and Free event
PRESENTED BY VISIT KNOXVILLE AND REGAL
Ramon Zürcher · 2024 · 117 minutes
April 16 · Regal Riviera · 7:00 p.m. · FREE
https://www.facebook.com/events/658257320234629
“Less elusive and more heated than their first two features, this darkly engrossing psychodrama of pent-up domestic tensions should be an arthouse breakthrough for Switzerland’s gifted Zürcher brothers.” – Variety
“A film dipped in venom, often funny and deeply unsettling in how it portrays families who don’t feel the need to hide their vitriol behind pleasantries.” – RogerEbert.com
Karen lives with her husband Markus and their children in her idyllic childhood home. Karen’s sister Jule and her family are visiting for Markus’ birthday. The two women could not be more different. Grim reminders of their deceased mother incite Jule’s rebellion against her domineering sister. As the house gradually fills with life and a sparrow in the chimney seeks a way out to freedom, Karen becomes increasingly tense — until it all comes to a head and the old is destroyed to make room for the new.
The Public Cinema was launched on February 8, 2015 at the Knoxville Museum of Art with a screening of The Strange Little Cat, the debut feature by Ramon Zürcher. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of that event, we’re kicking off Film Fest Knox’s 2025 free screening series with Zürcher’s latest, The Sparrow in the Chimney.
