Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!
Baise-moi is a divisive provocateur piece of New French Extremism — raw, transgressive, and politically charged in its fusion of explicit sexuality and graphic violence as feminist rage. Its novelty lies in its confrontational intent and the audacity of two women directors helming unsimulated sex and real violence as genre deconstruction. However, the plot is thin and episodic, functioning more as a nihilistic rampage than a structured narrative. The acting is rough and unpolished, partly by design given the non-professional performers, but it limits emotional investment. The low-budget DV cinematography is deliberately grimy yet lacks the artistic intentionality that would elevate it. The ending is abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying even by the film's own anarchic logic. It earns its place in extreme cinema history but remains more notable as a cultural provocation than a fully realized film.