Baise-moi

Unrated

4/20/20011h 17m

Premiere Release (US)

~ Art or Pornography? You be the judge! Complete and Uncut the most controversial film of all time...A hard-core Thelma & Louise. ~

Overview:

Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!

Director:

Virginie Despentes

Status:

Released

Language:

French

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$940,944.00

Key words:

rape
nihilism
sadism
women's sexual identity
feminism
revenge
murder
woman director
depravity
new french extremism

Cast

Karen Lancaume

~ as ~

Nadine

Raffaëla Anderson

~ as ~

Manu

Ouassini Embarek

~ as ~

Radouan

Adama Niane

~ as ~

Man in Pool Hall

Marc Barrow

~ as ~

Hotel Receptionist

Patrick Eudeline

~ as ~

Francis

Ian Scott

~ as ~

Rapist

Zenza Raggi

~ as ~

Big Guy

Jean-Louis Costes

~ as ~

Man in Swinger Club

Titof

~ as ~

Cute Guy

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Reviews (1)

griggs79
Written 8 month(s) ago
3
Baise-Moi is, frankly, dreadful. Years ago, I had a flatmate who was obsessed with it—I’ve never understood why. Even setting aside the sex and violence, what remains is a shoddy mess: it looks and sounds like an early 2000s daytime soap, complete with a dreadful soundtrack and incidental music and performances that barely convince. The direction is apathetic at best. I watched it on an old DVD still bearing the BBFC’s cuts, so perhaps the visuals suffered there—but even Arrow’s restoration can’t polish this particular turd. Yes, the sexual violence still shocks, mainly due to how casually it’s presented. But in the near quarter-century since its release, the film’s once-infamous brutality has been easily surpassed—leaving Baise-Moi exposed as little more than a provocateur with nothing to say. It appears the only reason this film exists is to annoy and piss off the censors—it’s neither exciting, titillating, nor remotely captivating.