Baise-moi

...York Press, BlackBook '' magazine, and ''Paper. He has translated several books of French origin, including Virginie Despentes' novel Baise Moi (which was later adapted into a controversial film); the writers Robbe-Grillet , Pierre...

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...Film Festival and the New Zealand International Film Festivals. It succeeded only with respect to Baise-Moi, although after several appeals this film subsequently went on to general commercial release. The SPCS has also sought permanent bans of...

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Virginie Despentes is a French novelist and filmmaker born June 13 1969 in Nancy, France. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her...

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...rape with the attitude, "You're an actress in pornographic films, so you can't complain. " Anderson played "Manu" in the 2000 art film, Baise-moi, an explicit French film about two women embarking on a journey of sex and violence. Time ''...

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...zoophilia, methamphetamine manufacture information and violent survivalist media are all prohibited in New Zealand. The film Baise-moi, which contained violence and real rather than simulated sex by the actors, was banned from video...

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...most sex scenes, including a horrific gang rape). Yet the filmmakers reportedly insist that Baise-Moi should not be classified as porn because it is not intended as a masturbation aid. Censors were unconvinced. The Classification Review...

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Virginie Despentes is best known for her controversial 1995 novel and 2000 film, Baise-Moi, about a prostitute and a rape victim who go on a killing spree. King Kong Theory is a free-ranging feminist manifesto that gives a little backdrop to...

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...well and is still capable of generating positive press, as you will see by the success in France of Virginie Despentes's nasty little novel Baise-Moi. (That's "F*** Me" in French, which is useful to know if you're planning a booze cruise to...

In this article: Anais Nin, Virginie Despentes, Andrea Dworkin, Georges Bataille, Erica Jong, Henry Miller, and Emmanuelle Arsan

...Sunday 18 January 2009 Most people expect Virginie Despentes to be angry. Perhaps they have seen the film she directed nine years ago, Baise-moi, a highly explicit rampage of sex and violence where a man gets beaten to death by two women...

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...of empowerment.' With films such as Catherine Breillat's Romance, an explicit study of female desire, Virginie Despentes's notorious Baise-moi and Gaspar Noe's disturbing Irreversible, critics claim mainstream French directors have been...

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