27/44
They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom
Narrative
Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave.
Temperatures soar in the south of France, the air is boiling in Marseille, people are advised to stay home and enjoy each other's company
However, Denise has had enough of the company of her abusive husband, who is always hungry, so she stabs him with a spade, and then suffocates him to death on their balcony.
She's not scared to combine all the existing film genres in one: horror, love story, thriller, drama, comedy, etc
This is how the story starts, but it's not Denise who's the main character: the plot revolves around three younger women Nicole, Ruby and Elise who decide to have a little get-together on Nicole's balcony that evening and they will never stop.This picture is Noémie Merlant's debut as adirector, and she's doing this with a blast.
But she doesn't seem to care about the genre, what she does care about is to make her message very clear
She says, no, yells, shrieks, screams: a lot of women are daily raped, violated, humiliated, oppressed, and victim-blamed by men, most of whom are their boyfriends, husbands or neighbors.
Bravo Noémie!
Noémie doesn't want them to get away with it, nor do her grotesque characters, who will find their liberation, and they don't care at what cost.An astonishing, gross, graphic and very confident debut.