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Baise Moi (2001)

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Reviews Counted:18

Fresh:1

Rotten:17

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Heavy on the sex and violence, Baise Moi is not so much a daring as a sloppy piece of work.

Runtime: 77 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Apr 27, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: BAISE-MOI, based on the controversial novel written by codirector Virginie Despentes, is a vivid and brutal reality-based exploration of two women's attempts to reclaim their sexual power.... BAISE-MOI, based on the controversial novel written by codirector Virginie Despentes, is a vivid and brutal reality-based exploration of two women's attempts to reclaim their sexual power. Real-life porn stars Raffaela Anderson and Karen Bach star as the film's THELMA AND LOUISE-style anti-heros. Manu (Raffaela Anderson), a porn actress, is the victim of a violent gang rape, depicted graphically in the first fifteen minutes of the film, that fills her with internal rage and violent aggression. She sets out on a road trip and meets Delphine (Karen Bach), a drug-addled former prostitute with an aggressive streak. Delphine and Manu join forces and begin on a revenge-fueled sexual rampage, seducing and killing with reckless abandon. Delphine and Manu are furious and empowered by their sexual prowess; they wield their guns and lingerie-clad bodies like true professionals. Adrenaline drives their killing spree, set to a pounding punk rock score, and murder becomes implicitly linked to sexual gratification. Directors Virginie Despentes (a former prostitute) and Coralie Trinh Thi (a former porno actress) shot the film in gritty digital video at a fast-paced reckless clip of 76 minutes, heightening the acute sense of urgency and nihilistic desperation of the two women. Despentes and Trinh Thi blur the lines between cinema and reality and delve into the dark recesses of female psychology. By shooting real hard-core sex scenes and employing former porn actresses, they create a compelling and daring film that sets the conventional notions of female sexual appetite on end. [More]

Starring: Karen Bach, Raffaela Anderson, H. P-G, Ouassini Embark

Starring: Karen Bach, Raffaela Anderson, H. P-G, Ouassini Embark

Director: Coralie Trinh Thi, Virginie Despentes

Director: Coralie Trinh Thi, Virginie Despentes
Producer: Philippe Godeau, Baudoin Capet
Composer: Varou Jan
Studio: FilmFixx

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03/19/02
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Baise-Moi is like a cheapie, vintage American exploitation movie, only one that goes so far beyond the bounds of taste that its affrontiveness becomes in large part what the film is about.

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02/24/02
Eric Harrison
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Houston Chronicle
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Too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.

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11/30/01
Jay Carr
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Boston Globe
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10/29/01
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
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As art, it is all badly done.

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07/20/01
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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A caterwauling punk anthem on film, a vengeful fantasia served up with digital rawness.

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07/16/01
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted.

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07/13/01
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
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More of a bluff.

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07/13/01
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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A deeply cynical movie and simultaneously an irritating, moronic piece of work.

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07/12/01
Michael Atkinson
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In railing against the exploitation of women, the movie is itself quite often exploitative.

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07/12/01
Desmond Ryan
Desmond Ryan
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A fast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it.

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07/12/01
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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Lacks the sophistication, wit and style needed to lift it to a higher level.

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07/12/01
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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A crude piece of work, unfocused, slackly structured and rambling.

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07/06/01
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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The result is like something you'd see momentarily unscrambled on a hotel television set, but with better music and a little more of a story line.

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07/05/01
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Too pleased with the debased romanticism of its slapdash self to outrage a shock-primed audience.

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07/03/01
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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As Despentes lets the brutality overwhelm the relationship between the women, the film loses its core, and the shock loses its value.

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06/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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It is not necessary to watch Baise Moi to understand the filmmakers' point.

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06/01/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Whatever message it wants to impart is overwhelmed by shoddy technique ... and a tendency to embrace the kind of exploitation with which it's supposedly in conflict.

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04/27/01
Edward Guthmann
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