Noémie Merlant’s second directorial feature marks a reunion with one of her most iconic collaborators: Her “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” director Céline Sciamma, who co-wrote Merlant’s latest film “The ...

The Balconettes is a fearlessly feminist horror-comedy unafraid to explore every corner of the genre. It’s full of gore, lives in a fantastical world, and highlights that all men are a problem. The ...

Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

Ghost story, body horror, feminist comedy and a freshly minted edition of that very French subgenre, How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Corpse: Noémie Merlant, familiar as a fine actress from Céline ...

How did this film come about? Four years ago, I found myself escaping from a daily life that was suffocating. I went to live with women, with friends of mine, including Sanda Codreanu, who stars in ...

Actor Noémie Merlant is proving herself to be more than just a performer with the release of her second directorial effort, The Balconettes. Described as a revenge horror-comedy, Merlant’s film, which ...

For crisp tension or thematic clarity, nothing in “The Balconettes” quite outdoes the nearly self-contained, minutes-long short that opens actor-director Noémie Merlant’s frenzied, heatstruck genre ...

The French actress works behind and in front of the camera in this frenetic comedy thriller. The 72 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now Your comment has not been saved Three friends in Marseille find ...

Noemie Merlant’s sophomore feature “The Balconettes” plays as a raunchy horror-comedy with a greater social conscience. The film follows three roommates – an actress, played by Merlant, a camgirl ...