Video Movie Review: A BALCONY IN LIMOGES (2025): Reybaud Finds Brutal Irony In Failed Acts Of Care

A Balcony in Limoges (2025) movie review, Locarno Film Festival drama thriller explained, and critical analysis.

Directed by Jérôme Reybaud. Starring Fabienne Babe, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Antonin Battendier, Patrice Gallet, and Lorena Celine.

Plot Synopsis:

“Gladys, a woman in her fifties living on the margins of society, is found in her car by Eugénie, an old school acquaintance and assistant nurse. Eugénie tries to help Gladys despite her resistance, but their strange renewed connection grows darker as questions of friendship, control, freedom, and resentment push the story toward a disturbing moral reckoning.”

What This Review Covers:

• Jérôme Reybaud’s dark approach to friendship, charity, and social unease
• Fabienne Babe and Anne-Lise Heimburger’s volatile central performances
• The film’s bleak drama-thriller tone and unsettling character dynamics
• How the titular balcony becomes central to the film’s disturbing moral tension