Review of Baise-moi (2000) by Alphabetsandnumerals ` — 18 Apr 2007

A review snippet from the front of the DVD cover sums up my overall feeling of the movie - "The most extreme Thriller you'll ever see legally!" With scenes of explicit sex, bloody merciless violence and the most shockingly disturbing rape scene you're ever likely to see. I'm amazed this movie got passed the BBFC with only 12 seconds of cuts, which was 10 seconds to actual penetration during the rape sequence and 2 seconds of a gun barrell being pushed up a guys anus! Even with these cuts there's still plenty of controversial material that would have warranted an out right ban a few years ago in the UK.

The story is set in France and consists of two young women who befriend eachother after escaping their lives of misery and decide to go on a joy-ride of sex, crime and cold-blooded killing. Simple as that.

With a budget of next to nothing, an unknown cast of French porn actors and a grainy home video type picture, don't go into this expecting to see anything of high calibre. It's amateur in all departments, but in a way it's amateurness gives the film a depressingly gloomy realism to it. The acting isn't as bad as I thought it would be, I feel the two lead actresses did the best job they possibly could. But the downbeat nature of the film doesn't make for very comfortable viewing. It's just one graphic sex scene and one bloody murder after another. No real solid story to it at all.

Absolutely the wrong movie to pick to watch with your girlfriend/Wife on a romantic night in.... you may become a victim of female violence yourself if you decide to take that risk. But I'd say it's worth a look just for the experience of seeing a movie like this which doesn't come along too often.