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‘The Balconettes’ Review: A Very Bloody, Somewhat Didactic, Game – Cannes Film Festival
Noémie Merlant's The Balconettes is parts ghost story, body horror, feminist comedy & very French subgenre, How to Get Rid of a Troublesome Corpse.
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 Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, packs a good deal into her sophomore feature as director, The Balconettes. The bulky shade of Pedro Almodovar looms over all these shenanigans, which could be read as “Women on the Verge of Heat Exhaustion” if there were more sense of it actually being hot, one of several flavors missing from Merlant’s confection of genres. Where is the wet hair sticking to the neck, the endless trickle down the spine, the wilting of spirits as heat moves into the house and won’t leave?
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