Girls with Balls

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Girls with Balls
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Directed byOlivier Afonso
Written byOlivier Afonso
Jean-Luc Cano
Produced byJean-Marie Antonini
Jérôme Vidal
Starring Guillaume Canet
Denis Lavant
Dany Verissimo-Petit
CinematographySascha Wernik
Edited bySébastien de Sainte Croix
Music bySacha Chaban
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
  • September 23, 2018 (2018-09-23)
Running time
77 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
LanguageFrench

Girls with Balls is a 2018 French-Belgian dark comedy horror film directed by Olivier Afonso and written by Olivier Afonso and Jean-Luc Cano. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

The film follows the Falcons, a championship volleyball team, which follow a detour home through remote, unknown roads. They come across a bar, where they are challenged with a most dangerous game. [4]

Cast

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42% based on 12 critics, with an average rating of 4.9/10. The site's consensus states: "While occasionally funny and relentlessly gory, Girls With Balls is neither particularly strong on cheap thrills nor a very remarkable entry to the trash horror genre." [5]

Scott Tobias of Variety wrote "Afonso doesn't push the cartoonish allure far enough into shocks or titillation, and he's not inventive enough to make up for the absence of cheap thrills". [6]

Writing for The Hollywood Reporter , Jordan Mintzer commented "Girls with Balls scores some points for its Z-movie conceits but could have benefited from stronger writing and direction". [1]

According to Kimber Myers of the Los Angeles Times , "This is a deranged nightmare of wildness, as full of laughs as it is arterial sprays". [7]

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References

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