
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 humiliated them. Controversial for its viol... (Full plot summary below)
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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 humiliated them. Controversial for its violence and real sex scenes: a vividly nihilist road movie set in France.
Leave your thoughts about Baise-moi.
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanBaise-Moi feels so resoundingly stunning since we're so used to getting our feminine empowerment in movies fed to us in compartmentalized bits. |
| SlateDavid EdelsteinAn exploitation movie reduced to its grindhouse essence. |
| indieWireBrandon JudellWhat we have here is a hard-core and sometimes condomed "Thelma and Louise" with a good dose of Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" thrown in. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghDespentes has her polemical bona fides in impeccable order. |
| Movie BoeufDavid N. ButterworthThe best example to date of why mainstream movies don't feature explicit sex scenes. |
| Seattle TimesJohn ZebrowskiLike an eager kid trying too hard to be noticed, it ends up just being tiresome. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversAs Despentes lets the brutality overwhelm the relationship between the women, the film loses its core, and the shock loses its value. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA pointless, witless hard-core porn+violence film. |
| Mr. ShowbizMichael AtkinsonA deeply cynical movie and simultaneously an irritating, moronic piece of work. |
| Reel.comRod ArmstrongThe venture is ultimately not quite worthwhile. |