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The Balconettes
Directed by
Noémie Merlant
2024
1h 45m
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5.8
76%
6.6
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Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.
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Cast of The Balconettes
Souheila Yacoub
Ruby
Sanda Codreanu
Nicole
Noémie Merlant
Élise / Director / Writer
Lucas Bravo
Voisin d'en Face
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
Denise
François Cottrelle
Mari de Denise
Christophe Montenez
Paul
Augustin Palvanh
Dams / Fantôme
Emanuele Carfora
Diego
Henri Cohen
Gynécologue
Nasir Bachouche
Enzo
Annie Mercier
La Voisine
Jean-François Comminges
Xavier Duflotte
Hamzah Raja Mohammad
Caissier
Amir Baylly
Tony
Alice Griveau
Katya
Victor Sansano
Client Ruby
Yassine Douani
Journaliste TV
Paul Granier
Fantôme
Pierre-François Créancier
Fantôme / Casting Director
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The Balconettes Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
June 30, 2025
The Balconettes, the second feature from Noémie Merlant, is a sun-drenched midnight riot packed with gore, ghostly detours, and feminist fury. Three Marseille roommates take revenge into their own hands after a predatory neighbor crosses the line—spiraling into one wild, genre-blending night. Merlant kicks things off with a near-16-minute long cold open and a bold movie-star entrance—dressed in full Marilyn Monroe garb, lit by a single diagonal beam of light as she bursts into their checkered tile-floor apartment. From there, it’s buddy comedy meets body horror (severed penis included), wrapped in a candy-colored fever dream. Not a single redeemable man in sight—and that’s the point. Messy, vengeful, and unbothered. Just how I like it.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
An ambitious project for a freshman effort, The Balconettes finds Merlant experimenting with a variety of tones and stylistic modes without losing focus on her thematic and narrative throughlines.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
boasts a colorful cast and sexy summertime vibe, but Merlant's midway shift is bumpy on her way to a feminist call to arms finale.
Peliplat
Sara Clements
If Merlant can find a way to channel that incandescent rage with a little more restraint in future projects, we may be looking at the rise of a bold new auteur.
MovieJawn
Clayton Hayes
Above all else, Merlant seems like a filmmaker who wants to tell interesting stories in interesting ways and isn't afraid to take risks. With The Balconettes, those risks have absolutely paid off.
Film Obsessive
Tina Kakadelis
The Balconettes is Rear Window for the anarchists who find power in claiming what they've endured, not hiding it.
Auteurist Class (Substack)
Peter Sobczynski
The Balconettes may not be a film for everyone but those in the mood for a twisted tale of female friendship and body disposal (it would make a perfect double bill with Honey Don't!) that offer a lot of laughs and a lot of blood should check it out.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Stylistic ambition surpasses narrative execution in this uneven French genre hybrid.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[A] comedic approach, as unapologetically dark as it may be, comes across the wrong way in terms of the tone.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
A twisted treat that induces laughter, gasps of disbelief, and thoughtful reflection.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A clunky and tonally uneven dark comedy.
Film Threat
Sabina Dana Plasse
What is clear in the overall message is that women worldwide have something to say about how they are being treated. Merlant makes this theme comedic yet scary.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Even while probing the multiplicity of ways that men make women's lives miserable, however, she manages to keep up a frequently manic pace of comedy, offering as many laughs as sobering facts.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Julianne Bell
The effect is something like an episode of Broad City as directed by Pedro Almodóvar. One thing's for sure: You'll never look at a rocking chair the same way again.
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
I like the way the film began and it held my attention, but lost my sympathies midway through. I'm all for sisterhood, but the men in the film are painted with the broadest of strokes.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
The components are there: a strong ensemble, mostly sturdy camerawork, and an intriguing premise. But the parts rarely add up to a satisfying whole, and so the potential of "The Balconettes" is left annoyingly hanging in the air.
The Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
But the film feels more like it's striking feminist poses than working through serious issues, and the throwing of whatever cinematic material against the wall and waiting to see what sticks is not a strategy that really works here.
Variety
Guy Lodge
The directorial energy being channelled here is closer to that of early Pedro Almodóvar, as Merlant piles up saturated, hot-hued melodrama, garrulous female bonding and cheerful lashings of blood and sex.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Stephanie Bunbury
None of these characters is developed enough to be likable; they are just moving pieces in a very bloody, somewhat didactic game. The point is that the men are so much worse.
AwardsWatch
Ben Rolph
As a director and an actress, Merlant truly lets loose and holds nothing back with her brilliant sophomore feature.
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