rating:
(out of
4 stars)France; 2000
Directed by Virginie Despentes; produced by Philippe Godeau; written by Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi
Starring Karen Bach, Raffaëla Anderson, Céline Beugnot, Adama Niane, Christophe Claudy Landry, Tewfik Saad
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
'Baise-Moi' tells the story of two women having sex with strangers, steal
money and other stuff and kill almost every witness. There is no real story,
not even the message that a movie like 'Natural Born Killers' has, and
basically we see a couple of scenes filled with sex and violence.
The movie probably just wants to shock and it succeeds in the early scenes.
One of the two women named Manu (Raffaëla Anderson) is raped together with a
friend. Especially the shots of her friend, with a close-up penetration
shot, are quite shocking. Since this was only the beginning of the movie I
was prepared for everything although later in the movie there are quite some
horrible scenes as well. After the event I just described Manu kills her
brother before she meets Nadine (Karen Lancaume) who just killed her
roommate. Together they start their violent journey.
May be you can find some interesting things. The only thing the movie did
for me was showing how cruel people can act. The movie doesn't give us any
answers about why they do the things they do and therefore we can not even
remotely understand the actions. Although I was not bored, I think that is
almost impossible, it is not a movie I would recommend. I just don't
understand why they have made the movie in this way, with pornographic
images and everything. 'Baise-Moi' is definitely not everyone.