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Baise-moi (Rape Me)

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 12 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Coralie Trinh Thi
Virginie Despentes (also novel)
Directed by:
Coralie Trinh Thi
Virginie Despentes
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 1, 2001
DVD: December 11, 2001
Running Time: 77 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Summary
RATING: X
Starring Raffaëla Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Delphine MacCarty, Lisa Marshall, Estelle Isaac, Hervé P. Gustave, and Marc Rioufol
Several sexually active young women on a rampage screw a lot of unfortunate men and blast a lot of people out of the water.
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site Official French Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
A small revolution tucked inside clichés and willful artistic ineptitude.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
You won't feel raped by it, but you well may feel that it's too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
The naked, artless display of nerve and rebellious bile is altogether unique in modern movies.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Tthough it comes wrapped in a stylish French mantle of feminist rage and sexual empowerment, the picture ultimately belongs squarely in the tradition of rape revenge pictures.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Seeks to shock and to outrage, and so far it's done both quite nicely.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Some may find it titillating; more will find it offensive and deeply disturbing.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Certainly blunt, and since Anderson and Bach are veterans of the porn trade, there is no skimping on the sex.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Strictly for adventurous moviegoers, a peculiar experience -- a polemic that is at once watchable and repellent.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Fast-moving shocker, but it's a dull shocker, so morally dead that it deadens you to watch it. After a while you couldn't care less if anyone is slaughtered or raped -- including the heroines.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
It's a bizarre hybrid: one part feminist screed, one part French art film and one part skin flick.
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf
A vicious, hard-core version of "Thelma and Louise," going nowhere near the Grand Canyon but leaving a trail of carnage in their wake.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Ms. Depentes and Ms. Thi -- push such chic amoralism to its logical conclusion, composing a numbing alternation of pornographic scenarios and brutal killings. The result is like something you'd see momentarily unscrambled on a hotel television set, but with better music and a little more of a story line.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Wit is in short supply -- although this journey to the end of the night derives a certain amount of punkish energy from its crude editing, cruddy-looking close-ups, strident soundtrack, and overall volatility.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
As has happened before in less extreme circumstances, filmmakers with purportedly serious intentions punish their viewers for watching their envelope-pushing depiction of sex on the screen by presenting it in the most profoundly negative context imaginable.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Sordid Thelma & Louise-ish spree, which also has certain affinities with Breathless but would be better termed Affectless.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The filmmakers have separated themselves from all the emotions of filmmaking except anger.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Charles Savage
The movie's only value is in unwittingly defining more clearly how played out the whole transgressing-boundaries-as-art thing has become.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It alternates between graphic, explicit sex scenes and murder scenes of brutal cruelty. You recoil from what's on the screen.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted, never lets go of its intellectualized approach long enough to deliver any real kinetic thrills.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
This hard-core pic is a half-baked, punk-inflected porn odyssey masquerading as a movie worth seeing and talking about.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.6 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Holly P. gave it a4:
More pornographic then artistic, i see the message and the way it which the film is structure is interesting but the images and graphic nature of the personal areas of the body are to close to pornography in my opinion!
Oh no gave it a 6:
It's easy for some American "Bourgeois" to be cynical about this movie, in fact it's a well done picture of american "ghetto" way of life... The sad thing about it is the Frenchies import the idea.
Thunder Werks gave it a 10:
Thelma and Louise with penetration. Nasty sex, senseless violence and horrid politics. When does the Fox series begin?
Oh No! More Gilbert Mulroneycakes gave it a 2:
Yes, well, not to stoop to rather ugly personal abuse, but the message to Baise-Moi (which can be translated as "Kiss Me", if you like...anyone?) isn't very well transmitted. It's a sort-of ironic subversion of movie sexism - "look, women can be sick and wrong to men just as easily, look, look, LOOK, DAMN YOU, LOOK!" - and, okay, I get that. But 77 minutes of mindless violence and horrifying sexual shenanegins? The message is so badly blunted by the delivery that Marc D might somehow be right after all, and the whole "subversion" thing was tacked on to justify a rather horrid gore\porn film. Except, except, it was a book first. Apparently. If you can imagine such a thing. Watch Irreversible instead.
Avatar C. gave it a 5:
Marc D you must be such an idiot American. About the film I prefer no opinion, but I just had to reply to some over reacting racist low-life piece of dumb ass american you are. o BTW: it is even forbidden by the french, so quit the government funded part. According to the title, you probably just expected some porn and are now disappointed because it turned out to be a movie with a message too complex for you brain. Sorry for that.
Jack D. gave it a 1:
Pretentious and inept piece of trash, pointlessly shocking.
