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Noemie Merlant’s Punk Fable ‘The Balconettes’ Shatters MeToo Taboos With Blood and Guts
Noemie Merlant and co-writer Celine Sciamma explore questions of coercion and consent with a raunchy horror comedy full of blood, guts, and ghosts.
Exploring questions of coercion and consent with a healthy dose of blood and guts, “The Balconettes” wants to entertain and energize in equal measure. I grew up on “Ichi the Killer,” on Korean films like “Memories of Murder,” then “The Chaser” and “The Wailing.” Asian genre cinema, Tarantino, and Almodovar were all huge parts of my childhood and adolescence. I often shot with a wide-angle lens in order to distort and to give the impression of being in a slightly fantastical world, playing with slow motion, and all these genre codes.
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