2024 · comedy · horror · fantasy
The Balconettes
Directed by Noémie Merlant1h 44m2024
As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to a boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbors from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.
Our read: The Balconettes (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
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