Zoë Rose Bryant Loud and Clear Reviews Sep 1, 2022 4/5

With acerbic accuracy, The Ground Beneath My Feet devastatingly depicts the disturbances that working women must withstand when prioritizing their profession over their personal lives.

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Gisela Savdie El Heraldo Mar 31, 2021

The director shows there's always a layer of pain behind a successful career [Full review in Spanish]

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Yasser Medina Cinefilia Dec 5, 2020 6/10

It benefits from a compelling performance from Valerie Pachner, but even that can't stop it from slowly falling apart when it engages with topics such as alienation, loneliness, and the stressful business life of postmodernity. [Full review in Spanish]

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Steven Sheehan The Digital Fix Jun 29, 2020 6/10

You can see many of the ingredients are there to transform it into something more memorable, yet it never quite comes together.

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Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) Jun 22, 2020 3/5

Marie Kreutzer's film - with all its chilly details - is an effective study of a life at breaking point.

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Tom Beasley Flickering Myth Jun 19, 2020 3/5

The Ground Beneath My Feet has admirable ideas and an intriguing premise at the core of its story, but the execution is sadly flat and lacking in the kind of energy that could have made its unreliable narrator conceit truly compelling.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jun 18, 2020 4/5

[An] elegant and mysterious psychological drama...

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David G. Hughes electric ghost Jun 17, 2020

First-rate Austrian drama is a damning diagnosis of the neurosis at the heart of contemporary society.

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Emma Simmonds The List Jun 15, 2020 4/5

It's terrifyingly credible in its depiction of the stress and slog of extreme work pressure.

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Wendy Ide Observer (UK) Jun 14, 2020 4/5

[A] tightly focused psychological drama...

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Rob Aldam Backseat Mafia Jun 11, 2020

It's a truly remarkable performance in what is an engaging, tense and ultimately rewarding film.

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David Lamble Bay Area Reporter May 26, 2020

This is sophisticated queer filmmaking whose concerns stretch beyond the ghetto or the boardroom.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 12, 2020 B

Well-crafted clinically observed art house tale of a modern-day business woman trapped in a rotten job.

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Carey-Ann Pawsey Orca Sound Jan 2, 2020 3/5

Here director Marie Kreutzer examines the unknown. The mysterious. While giving it the look and tone of a thriller. Though it isn't.

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Sara Clements Exclaim! Nov 13, 2019 7/10

The Ground Beneath My Feet is writer-director Marie Kreutzer's take on the 21st century working woman. It's a jarring confrontation, a mirror placed in front of the audience to show how we're working ourselves to death.

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Sherilyn Connelly SF Weekly Oct 10, 2019

[Marie] Kreutzer paints a... nuanced portrait of the dehumanizing effects of the aesthetically-sterile, male-dominated business world.

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David Lewis San Francisco Chronicle Oct 10, 2019 3/4

"The 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.

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Redmond Bacon Cultured Vultures Sep 1, 2019

Considering it's a film about working way too hard, it doesn't seem to learn from its own central lesson.

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Peter Rainer FilmWeek (LAist) Aug 23, 2019

The performances are strong and it has a creepy, ominous way of moving along the story that is effective.

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Alex Heeney Seventh Row Aug 21, 2019

The Ground Beneath My Feet thus raises the age-old and sadly still relevant question: can a woman ever be truly free when living in the patriarchy?

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