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Le Triangle d'Or Turns a Paris Mansion into a Tense Study of Class

The director uses her own cleaning-job experience and surveillance-style staging to show how extreme wealth can trap and silence domestic workers.

Overview

  • Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz’s debut feature centers on Laura, a young domestic worker played by Malou Khebizi, who enters service for a reclusive woman portrayed by Soundos Mosbah in a vast Triangle d’Or hôtel particulier.
  • The film employs surveillance-camera framing and a reportage-like opening to create an atmosphere of opulence that reads as carceral and controlled.
  • Early French reviews published this week praised the film’s tense huis clos tone and the chemistry between its two leads, noting its 1 hour 30 minute runtime and theatrical release on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
  • Producer Marie-Ange Luciani backed the project from its start, bringing established industry weight to the debut and helping shape the film from the director’s autobiographical material.
  • Rosselet-Ruiz grounded the screenplay in personal experience and sociological reporting, including work like Alizée Delpierre’s Servir les riches, to place the story in wider conversations about the exploitation and invisibility of domestic labor.