They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and yearn for freedom
Chronology
Three women in a Marseille apartment are trapped by the heatwave. Temperatures are soaring in the South of France, the air is scorching in Marseille, people are urged to stay at home and enjoy each other’s company.
This film is Noémie Merlant’s directorial debut, and she does it brilliantly
However, Denise is tired of the company of her abusive and always hungry husband, so she stabs him with a shovel, then suffocates him to death on their balcony. This is how the story begins, but Denise is not the main character: the plot revolves around three young women, Nicole, Ruby and Elise, who decide to meet on Nicole’s balcony that night and they will never stop.
But she doesn’t seem to care about gender, what interests her is to get a very clear message across
She is not afraid to combine all the existing film genres into one: horror, love story, thriller, drama, comedy, etc. She says, no, screams, screams, screams: many women are raped, raped, humiliated, oppressed and made to feel guilty by men on a daily basis, most of them their boyfriends, husbands or neighbors.
Bravo Noémie!
Noémie doesn’t want them to get away with it like that, nor do her grotesque characters, who will find their liberation, and no matter the price. An astonishing, crude, graphic and very self-confident first film.