tedben I agree with most reviews which can be read here. Virginie Despentes film "Baise Moi" is not a good movie when it comes to filmmaking. (Besides, its soundtrack is not quite fitting in comparism to the late-ninties punk baseline of the book.)Nevertheless there are a few moments in which you can sense the intention of the novel behind it. Which is in my opinion worth reading. In her work Despentes tries to radically interchange heteronormative orders of men and women and furthermore reveals an insuperable neoliberal economic system from which its subjects, especially female-read characters, can not, in any way, break out. Regardless of how hard, violently or vulgarly they try to turn the tables or disguise in a carnivalesque manner.But the film is too short and simply broken down to violence and explicit (!) pornography. A spectator without background knowledge of Despentes novels or her way of writing (and talking) about feminist issues could easily be overwhelmed and offended by this obscure piece of french trash cinema.If you are still interested in the work of Virginie Despentes read "Baise Moi" and maybe some passages of her essay anthology "King Kong Theory". Not quite easy to consume but readable as a deconstructive attempt to make structures of both social and economic exploitation (of women) visible. With punk music, sex, hardcore porn, drugs and violence!

leed-08035 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.

carlvdl If you are a fan of 'extreme' cinema, especially of the French variety, chances are you've already heard of or seen 'Baise Moi', and if you're not, then it probably won't be too high on your list of films to see, if it is at all. Hopefully you know what to expect at least!BM is somewhat like 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer', but with a pair of seemingly psychologically 'normal' women, who one day lose it and commit murder on impulse, happen to bump into one another before going postal for a few days before it all unravels tragically at the end.What BM offers that most 'extreme' films don't, is a large proportion of the cast and directors being from the pornographic industry, and of course, actual unsimulated sex scenes. That and the the fact that women are ones committing reckless acts of murder, often in brutal and creative ways, with the sex and the violence interspersed evenly and casually throughout, does serve to earn the film its controversial reputation.A common criticism is the loose storytelling, and yes, the first few scenes are unusual, and very random, snippets of street/bar scenes, conversations, yet all tinged with a sense of menace. Tension between man and woman is palpable from early on, before any of the characters are properly introduced.The first lead is Nadine, a lady of the night, played by the stunning (and sadly departed) Karen Lancaume, demure and polite in public, super casual at home, where she constantly fends off her bickering housemate. The second is Manu (Rafaella Anderson), younger and gutsier, and actually more believable as a killer or a criminal than Nadine.The manner of their meeting and subsequent bonding is somewhat rushed and artificial. Probably not what the directors wanted to focus on, in preference for getting to the action as soon as possible.The violence will satisfy most extremophiles, it is more of the gritty and realistic variety than the cartoonish gore Kill Bill variety. However, I never truly bought Nadine as a sadistic killer the way I did with Manu. Manu just seems like a dangerous street kid capable of anything, with Nadine it feels she is more just coming along for the ride, and is too jaded about life to care or take much pleasure in the brutality. Her speaking and mannerisms are too sedate and measured, even aloof; I am thinking her first mainstream role should not have been as radical as this. BM finishes with Manu killed, and Nadine forced to deal with her loss, whom she mourns as she would a sister (after only having met her a few days prior). So, not even after so much carnage does she lose her ability to feel, or love, she is finally presented as a tragic character, not a monster. And perhaps, after being used to seeing psychopaths commit these acts on our screens, Nadine's 'human' story adds to BM being so hard to stomach for the censors, given the monstrous acts she previously committed.I know of no other film as violent with frequent unsimulated sex scenes, especially not ones where the murderers and participants in said sex scenes are one and the same! Given that the film is now 13 years old, in the world of extreme, that has to count for something!

Lisa Muñoz I couldn't figure out if this was porn or an exploitation movie. It should have been more about exploitation. If real sex were to be shown, it should have been about the intimacy between the two people instead of the prostitution, rape and sodomy.Baise-moi is about a lot of things, revolt, sexual violence, lust, rebellion, attack on the rich, the scums, the sleaze, the pervs, the life of slackers, drug addicts and low lives. There are so many things that I just can't put my finger on.When a movie is very confusing in a lot of senses, I don't like it. And this one was pretty muddled up. I can't feel too sorry for these girls (I didn't watch the whole of rape scene, as it was too much) because they do equally repulsive things as what was done to them. The controversy surrounding the film, as well as some outraged right wing and conservative groups trying to ban the film from premiering in France, is actually more interesting than the film itself. I'm really not sure what the directors were attempting to do with the film, either making another Thelma & Louise, but on crack, or showing that pornography is actually a violence towards women, as, both the directors and the lead actresses have experienced, in the porn industry, women are often used as objects of extreme sex, violence and humiliation.Either way, the film really doesn't merit the title of a film that changed the way people thought, it was simply trying to say something about pornography and the violence that comes with it, mixed into an indie film, that was so violent and sexually explicit that it was banned in several countries and changed several censorship titles in France.If you want a better story about nihilism, a lot violence and killings, with a clear message about why they are depicted, watch Natural Born Killers, instead.