Baise-Moi (Fuck Me) (2000)

New French Extremity (39 movies items)

"Based on the novel by Virginie Despentes of the same title. Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against bourgeois society, but certainly in a negation - almost joyful in its senseless violence - of all the codes of a society which has excluded, raped and hum"

Watched in 2021 (631 movies items)

"21.4. 35 mm"

An average movie

“In spite of or because of its notorious reputation, I have to admit that I was actually rather intrigued by this movie and I knew I had to watch it at some point. Well, eventually, even if it was expected, it still turned out to be a cheap and nasty piece of work. First of all, nowadays, you can shoot something really decent with a digital camera or even with an iPhone but, back then, if you didn’t go for the good old celluloid, the only other option was to shoot with some analog VHS camcorder and the end-result was always terribly ugly, as it was displayed in this movie. Concerning the story, the beginning scenes were pretty messy and awkward and, from the moment the main characters met each other in the most random way possible, the whole thing became some kind of (very) dark version o” read more

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"Baise-Moi"

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"29.4."