Dir: Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi
2000
*
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi pushed the boundaries of censorship to the limits in their 2000 crime/sex drama. It may have been a pioneering film in many respects but I don't believe anything of quality has since come from it. Baise-moi isn't even that provocative. It's cheap and nasty sex and violence. Sex and violence have always had their place in cinema but neither work well when gratuitous and without real purpose. At the end of the day, if you want porn, watch a porn film and if you want violence, watch Natural Born Killers. Mixing the two in this film and showing graphic scenes of rape for the sake of titillation is just plain nasty. The infamous rape scene in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible serves a purpose, Baise-moi is just violent pornography pretending to be art.
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