Marianne (Noemie Merlant), right, in Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Héloïse (Adèle Haenel). Merlant includes Monroe in The Balconettes because she believes that, like the film’s female ...

The film begins with Jo (Noémie Merlant), a successful blogger, throwing her own baby shower at the chic upstate cabin she shares with her husband, Spencer (Kit Harington).

MERLANT: When we talk, what helps me, my friends, to escape from past trauma is humor, the absurd. It’s a way of keeping our heads above water. I also wanted there to be vulgarity.

Euronews Culture sits down with French actress-director Noémie Merlant to talk about her new directorial effort 'Les femmes au balcon' ('The Balconettes'), the state of #MeToo in the French film ...

“Baby Ruby,” which held its world premiere at TIFF, is not your mother’s movie about being a new mom. Or maybe it is. In the film, Noémie Merlant (“Portait of a Lady on Fire”) plays Jo ...

Noémie Merlant, the French actor of “Tár,” is reteaming with Celine Sciamma, who directed her in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” for her sophomore outing, “The Balconettes.” The ...

Merlant adds: “I fell in love with my character, actually. For me, without saying much or showing much, she’s always in the shadow, and she represents a woman who wants to live from her passion.

In Noémie Merlant's uneven but enjoyable 'The Balconettes,' flirting with the cute guy across the street has grisly consequences for three roommates.

For Merlant, the open-ended provocations are what drew her most to the project. “ It’s not a movie with answers, it’s a movie with kind of a lot of mystery and a lot of questions.