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BAISE-MOI (35MM)
Part of the NACHTBLENDE special series
in a double feature with BROKEN MIRRORS
“Felt more like a manifesto and personal revenge, and I thought that was pretty impressive.” Blair Bitch on Letterboxd
This is not a film for the faint of heart, but rather a punch in the gut to patriarchy, the film industry, and anyone else watching. Not a perfect film by conventional standards, but a hard-hitting response to a cinema that stages sexualized violence as a moment of tension but trivializes its consequences. Together with co-director Coralie Trinh Thi, Despentes adapts her own 1994 novel for the screen in her directorial debut, thereby writing herself into the history of scandalous films.
Nadine and Manu, two women from the French underclass, struggle with poverty and humiliation of all kinds, keep their heads above water through sex work, and are regularly victims of brutal assaults. The straw that breaks the camel's back for them is a highly explicit rape scene. Instead of continuing to settle into the role of victims, they take up arms...