{"id":18679,"date":"2024-09-06T21:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=18679"},"modified":"2024-12-17T23:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:03:32","slug":"the-balconettes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-balconettes\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BALCONETTES Les Femmes au balcon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE BALCONETTES<\/h1>\n

(Les Femmes au balcon)<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727382296972{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

CINEMA COMPETITION
\n<\/strong>HALLOWEEN NIGHT
\n<\/strong>TRUFFAUT THEATRE
\nComedy \/ Horror \/ Thriller \u2013 Recommended 17+<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728426966986{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

THURSDAY OCTOBER 31<\/strong>
\n8:15 pm (Screening ends at 10:05 pm)
\nFollowed by a conversation with actress Sanda Codreanu<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd091bf30f9f00403d3302″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728249280016{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in association with:
\n<\/b>Mk2 Films
\nThe Forge Entertainement
\nFrance T\u00e9l\u00e9visions
\nScreamfest Horror Film Festival
\nWomen In Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727818219106{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Special Screening\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>| France | 2024 | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 103 min | In French with English subtitles | Recommended 17+
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\nDirected by: <\/strong>No\u00e9mie Merlant
\nWritten by: <\/strong>No\u00e9mie Merlant, C\u00e9line Sciamma
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Pierre Guyard, Christophe Rossignon & Philip Bo\u00ebffard (Nord-Ouest Production), France 2 Cin\u00e9ma
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Evgenia Alexandrova
\nFilm Editing: <\/strong>Julien Lacheray
\n<\/strong>Original Score: <\/strong>U\u00e8le Lamor
\nCast:<\/strong> Souheila Yacoub (Ruby),\u00a0Sanda Codreanu (Nicole),\u00a0No\u00e9mie Merlant (Elise), Lucas Bravo (the neighbour across the street), Annie Mercier (the woman next door), Nad\u00e8ge Beausson-Diane (Denise), Henri Cohen (the gynecologist), Christophe Montenez (Paul)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>MK2 Films
\nUS Distributor:<\/strong> The Forge Entertainment
\nUS Release date:<\/strong> 2025<\/p>\n

Temperatures are soaring in Marseille. Would-be novelist Nicole sits on her balcony in search of inspiration, but her mind keeps wandering to the hunky guy lurking in his window across the street… Enter Ruby, her cam-girl roommate, fresh from a threesome and equally smitten with their handsome neighbor… Then their actress-friend Elise turns up, dressed as a Marilyn-lookalike, literally smashing into the cute guy’s car. However, things spiral out of control when the sexy neighbor invites them all over for a drink… and the bloodbath begins. Actress-turned-director No<\/strong>\u00e9<\/strong>mie Merlant<\/strong>‘s absurdist second feature mixes broad comedy, Asian gore and sexual politics in this gleeful takedown of toxic masculinity and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

Actress No<\/strong>\u00e9<\/strong>mie Merlant<\/strong> has appeared in some fifty films and is a three-time C\u00e9sar Award nominee, for her performances in Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar’s Heaven Will Wait<\/em> (COLCOA 2017); C\u00e9line Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire<\/em> (2019), for which she garnered numerous festival awards and the Lumi\u00e8re Award for Best Actress; and Louis Garrel’s hilarious The Innocent<\/em> (TAFFF 2022), for which she finally nabbed the prestigious Best Actress C\u00e9sar Award. She turned to writing and directing with the short films Je suis une biche<\/em> (2017) and Shakira<\/em> (2019). She made her feature film directorial debut in 2021 with Mi\u00a0iubita, mon amour<\/em>, which she also starred in, and which premiered in competition in Cannes. The Balconettes<\/em><\/strong> also had its world premiere as a Midnight Screening in Cannes, in May of this year, and is presented at TAFFF prior to its December French theatrical release.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/the-balconettes-2024-poster-scaled.jpeg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1725656427393{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THE BALCONETTES (Les Femmes au balcon) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727382296972{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] CINEMA COMPETITION HALLOWEEN NIGHT TRUFFAUT THEATRE Comedy \/ Horror \/ Thriller \u2013 Recommended 17+ [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728426966986{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 8:15 pm (Screening ends at 10:05 pm) Followed by a conversation with actress Sanda Codreanu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18679"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20212,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18679\/revisions\/20212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}