The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)

Original title

La Femme la plus assassinée du monde

Directed by

Franck Ribière

Genre

drama film, biographical film, thriller film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

16

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 100 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French actress who is repeatedly killed on stage at a horror theater starts to suspect that her fictional deaths are mirrored by real murders. She investigates the strange connection between the stage and reality.

mysteriousatmosphericsuspensefultheatricaldarkslow-pacedstylishhistorical

What happens

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (French: La femme la plus assassinée du monde) is a 2018 French mystery thriller and the debut feature film directed and produced by Franck Ribière. It stars Anna Mouglalis, Niels Schneider, Eric Godon, Sissi Duparc, André Wilms, Michel Fau. The leading lady of Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, Paula Maxa (Anna Mouglalis), is known for being murdered in every show on stage. Someone starts to notice that there is a link between these murders and a series of murders in real life. The film is the first Belgian movie made for Netflix. It was shot in a 1.85 : 1 screen ratio through Spherical lens. It is loosely inspired by the work and life of actual French actress Paula Maxa. Filmed over the course of a month and a half on an estimated budget of €4,500,000, the film was released straight to Netflix after a premiere at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in April 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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