Baise Moi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249380/

 

Alright so for the first film to be blogged about here is a New Wave French movie Baise Moi. The film is directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie. The movie is about two separate women who have there own screwed up lives. One is raped and beaten by her brother and the other is pretty much a nobody who just sits around doing nothing but hanging out and waiting to talk to her junkie best friend. They both flip out and kill someoneBais and their paths cross to develop a friendship that leads them down a hell bent path.

The film stars Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson.  Now there performances in this movie is fairly good for such a low budget movie. This movie looks like it shot on a video camera and is shot in a sort of documentary style.

Basically this movie consists of us following these two women after there initial flip out on a murderous, sexual hellish tear across France.

The first shocking thing about this movie is the sex in the movie. You will wonder what the hell just happened when it first comes on the screen. It will take you by surprise. This movie holds no punches in what it is trying to portray. It leaves nothing to the imagination. But it is supposed to in your face. The movie makes you pay attention even if you don’t want to.

Baise Moi is one of those movies that is meant to shock with it’s sex and violence. It trying to show what can happen if two people are pushed to their brink. Basically your “give a shit” meter breaks and you go across country drinking, having sex and raising hell.

This film is basically a Hardcore French version of Thelma and Louise . This movie will either intrigue you or make you turn you DVD player off 25 minutes into it. That is what a shocking cult movie is supposed to do. It is supposed to bring some kind of emotion out of you. Whether it be anger at such a film being made or grabbing you by the balls and making you watch even though you know you shouldn’t.

Baise Moi is one of those films that you may not watch more than one time but you will forever remember it. You will always talk about it when someone brings up crazy films they have seen in the past. That is what makes Baise Moi a movie on the blog. So if you want to be shocked check it out.