Baise-moi (2001)

Please don't follow my example by wasting your time watching this movie. Although the description to the movie seemed interesting, the movie itself doesn't live up to it. The story hardly makes any sense, it's just all designed to put in as much reason-less sex and violence as possible. I got the impression the movie is just trying really hard to cause some scandal that would help it sell. The visual quality of the movie is also awful. The images are constantly overlaid with white noise, simply because they used a bad camera in the dark. The characters are totally overdone. The movie basically is trying to tell you that everybody is a reckless selfish bastard and those who aren't are just losers. Of course some people think like that, but even for those people the way these movie characters act would be far too extreme and unrealistic. The dialogs and the acting do not feel real. Ever watched a crappy soap series and wondered how they could make it so bad. This movie is worse. The only positive thing I can say about this movie is, that the makers dared to show more skin than any Hollywood movie would ever dare. It's nice to see such courage in independent film makes, but in this case you're better off watching porn.Seriously, however tempting it is. Please, please save your valuable life time and don't watch this movie.

Baise-Moi follows the story of Nadine (played by Karen Lancaume) and Manu (Raffaëla Anderson) who are gang raped by a group of men, this vicious act is the catalyst for a full fledged femme- fatel revenge trip of sex and violence.Baise-Moi is one of the most sexually explicit film to come out since Deep Throat, the film contains sexual activates all involve actual sexual intercourse being shown. The sex in the film is placed to create a cutting edge feel to the film and to try to create a film that is "real". fans of John Waters early movies such as Pink Flamingos will feel a particular nostalgia and may even see this film as it truly should be seen as a transgressive cult film that has its tongue firmly in- check (pun intended).However on a technical level the film is severely flawed the cinematographic is simple and bland ,however this adds to the raw and brutal land scape the film creates. Other amateurish parts of the film include the some of the effects in respects to the action orientated sequences of the film ,where the actresses who are surprisingly very competent barring mind they have only acted in hard core pornography, come across as clunky and badly directed. This may lead to people coming away disappointed with the film and carry around the notion of emptiness and that the film is one dimensional. In regards to the acting the cast does a suppressing convincing job, especially the two main leads who portray these cold but loving women who enjoy killing and shagging there way thought France. This add to the notion that Baise-Moi has more of a parallel existences with John Waters band of misfits, most notably Divine. The violence is shot with no style and bring to mind the latter works of lucio Fluci, in terms of the technical side this proves that the tow directors are not the most artistically driven in terms of having an atheistically pleasing film. However on the other hand the film verity approach does add to interesting themes of the world falling apart, however the films overall action does make theses theme slightly frivolous in there overall impact and by the end of the film they have completely fallen out. Overall the film is flawed in respects of the technical accomplishment, but still manages to create an unforgettable film, that has hit the nail on the head in terms of pressing the right buttons and using the gimmick of real sex and saving itself from being a middle of the road copy of Thelma & Louise

Former prostitute Virginie Despentes and former porn actress Coralie Trinh Thi co-directed this pedestrian crime thriller about two women on the rampage who have no qualms about killing anybody who gets in their way. Comparisons between this trash and Ridley Scott's acclaimed "Thelma and Louise" are inevitable, but "Baise-Moi" lacks virtually anything and everything that a good movie needs. Two ruthless thugs rape two women in a garage, and these two unfortunate girls, Nadine (Karen Lancaume) and Manu (Raffaëla Anderson), obtain guns and then launch a shooting spree. They rob a woman at an ATM and riddle several men. Most of the men and women that they murder don't deserve their fate. A lot has been written about the explicit sex scenes in this movie. Actually, you could probably find a much more explicit example of this kind of pornography. The two female directors do show penetration, but they don't show much of anything on the girls. Breast shots are held to an absolute minimum. The film contains no vestiges of humor. Nadine likes to rip the nylons that she wears before she has sex. These two are not only unsavory but also unsympathetic. The performances are forgettable. About the only scene that strikes an interesting note occurs early when one girl cries and struggles against the advances of one rapist and gains the attention of the other rapist. When the two rapists switch girls, Nadine neither cries nor struggles, and the rapist turns her loose. Perhaps there is a veiled message. The pornography takes up a minor percentage of the action. The dialogue--even in subtitles--is just as forgettable. Clocking in at 77 minutes, "Baise-moi" is mercifully brief. For the record, Nadine dies when she tries to hold up a store, and Manu is captured by the authorities as she contemplates suicide. No matter what you read about this superficial saga, you are wasting your time with his potentially interesting epic lensed from the perspective of the porn industry..

Everyone who defends this (needlessly) controversial film likes to say that it's absolutely, definitely not porn. They say this because "the film is not meant for masturbation" or some other legally defining excuse. Even the filmmakers have cried out, "This is not porn!" in their own defense.But the thing is… this movie is totally porn. It gleefully fetishisizes violence, rape, drug use, lesbianism, domestic abuse, sodomy, robbery, gambling, blow jobs, punk-music, revenge, menstruation, patriarchal oppression, suicide and your good old fashioned non-simulated sex. Most of the time the script feels like it's just ticking off boxes on some all inclusive list of kinks. And it's all done for the money shot, baby… every time. You know why it's porn? It's porn because it shows all of those things in detailed close ups… but it has nothing to say about any of them.Directed in a classic DIY style and squarely falling into the "New French Extremism" movement, it was made by two-women. One a former punk turned massage-parlour hostess and the other an ex-porn star. It features two other female porn actresses mass-murdering and fornicating (imdb won't let me use the word I want to use) across France, all in "trash" aesthetic video and shot in available light. It's a female power fantasy. An act of sexual reclamation that reverses the conversation on gender violence and it's created by actual sex-workers. So that, in and of itself, is interesting… the actual film, however, is tedious and artificial.At times the movie does seem to show a passing interest in addressing genuine gender-war rage, but that's all thoroughly lost in its own appetite for shock imagery and its desperate need to be offensive. I've read interviews where the filmmakers claim the movie speaks to all kinds of social injustices, from class separation to racism, and I suppose those ingredients are there in the mix, but in the end this movie is really only concerned with being more pornography in a porn saturated world.Although the fact that the movie has been banned in several countries, including France, suggests that it's just the sort of artistic exercise society needs. Sadly. So there's that.If you're into camp, actual on camera sex (Raffaela Anderson is pretty hot) and you don't mind a very intense rape scene (why is the sex so real and the violence so cartoonish in this movie?), I guess it's a pretty intriguing thing to watch.