Mathilde, despite her nurse's diploma, is a thirty year old struggling when it comes to work. She discovers poker when she becomes pregnant. Her nickname, La Tueuse (The Killer), is due to the pitiless way she destroys her opponents at the gaming table. But Mathilde becomes addicted to the game and her life turns upside down.
Acting
Pauly's cold, unreadable stillness at the table is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Tissot makes poker scenes feel like psychological combat, not sports movie thrills.
Director
Rodolphe Tissot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
French TV movies (téléfilms) often get dismissed, but this one's part of a 2010s wave exploring working-class women's economic desperation through genre lenses.
Adrienne Pauly was primarily known as a singer before this; Tissot cast her specifically for her 'unpredictable energy' that unsettled male poker consultants on set.
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