The couple live off social security benefits and the proceeds of Bruno's robberies – he is the head of a gang of thieves.

In the film she plays the cool and calculating butcher's daughter Mélanie, who takes her revenge on the middle classes.

In this film François mimes the part of Mélanie, which won her special acclaim from the critics and for which she was nominated for a César Award in 2007.

[4] In that same year, she was also awarded the Romy-Schneider Prize and starred in the film My Queen Karo opposite Matthias Schoenaerts.

François lives in Paris, France, after growing up in Liège, Belgium, where she attended the same high school as fellow actress Marie Gillain, who also features in Les Femmes de l'Ombre (as Suzy Desprez, while she assumes the role of Gaëlle Lemenech).