Three women, a shotgun, and a bakery. Boredom has never been this dangerous.
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a complex game of love and domination. Magalie, the ringleader, subjugates through her male power, and bestial charisma. Simple Marie-Steph, her younger sister, remains in the background, and Barbara, unaware of her own prettiness, has joined the pack because she loves Magalie. One day, at Magalie’s instigation, and almost out of boredom, they hold up a bakery and kill the baker with a buckshot gun. Life gradually resumes, but nothing is the same.
Acting
Valérie Nataf's animalistic magnetism holds every toxic frame.
Direction
Le Besco's handheld intimacy makes voyeurism feel compulsory.
Cinematography
Marginal spaces shot like the end of the world already happened.
Director
Isild Le Besco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2010s French cinema exploring female violence and class marginalization, often dismissed as 'extreme' rather than examined as social diagnosis.
Le Besco reportedly developed the script through improvisation with the cast, explaining the raw, unstable chemistry that feels barely contained by the frame.
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