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Noémie Merlant

Les femmes au balcon (The Balconettes)

Director Noémie Merlant Composer Uèle Lamore Cast Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Lucas Bravo
Edition 2024
105' - 2024 - Fantasy, Comedy, Horror - Format: DCP - Dialogue: French
Three flatmates share the promise of love and bloody sorrow in Les femmes au balcon (The Balconettes). From behind the balustrade, actor-director Noémie Merlant and co-writer Céline Sciamma (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) cast a confident gaze at male violence and female freedom. Unrestrained, unpredictable and provocative on its own terms.

Les femmes au balcon, that's writer Nicole, camgirl Ruby and actress Élise in their flat in Marseille. Amid a heatwave, they fantasise about their handsome neighbour across the street from their balcony. Until a drink at his place late at night gets disgustingly out of hand. Noémie Merlant directs herself in her second feature film with guts and panache from the minute-long opening shot. Her co-screenwriter is Céline Sciamma, who directed her in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu. Like a feminist, French Almodóvar, Merlant blends disparate genres and moods into a flamboyant nightmare about patriarchal abuse. Even dead, the men don't give the women a break. The predominantly female crew behind and in the film indulges in unfettered fun, open and bare to the gynaecologist. Moreover, Les femmes au balcon contains possibly the funniest scream of this FFG edition and the dog with the best name.

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Credits

Directors

Noémie Merlant

Composers

Uèle Lamore

Cast

Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Lucas Bravo

Scenario

Noémie Merlant, Céline Sciamma, Pauline Munier

Director of Photography

Evgenia Alexandrova

Editors

Julien Lacheray

Producers

Pierre Guyard

Production studios

Nord-Ouest Films

Distributor

Cinéart

More info

Dialogue

French

Countries of production

France

Year

2024

Filmography

Noémie Merlant
Je suis une biche (2017), Shakira (2019), Mi iubita, mon amour (2021), Les femmes au balcon (2024)

Technical Specs

Format
DCP