Film Review – Paper Spiders

“Paper Spiders” looks at the challenges of living with delusional disorder, highlighting a mother and daughter wrestling with a slow development of destructive paranoid behavior as they both enter new stages in their lives. It’s a story about change and family from co-writer/director Inon Shampanier, who works to create distinct worlds of distress for the lead characters, understanding how they work together and apart in a world seemingly loaded with degrees of mental illness. Shampanier isn’t out to hammer audiences with violent emotional activity, but “Paper Spiders” isn’t light, endeavoring to craft some level of authenticity when it comes to human decay, but it also welcome viewers into the central relationship, which was founded in love and struggles to remain there as the unimaginable arrives to destroy everything. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com