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Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 ><NOBR><div> Going past the edge only requires a small push</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Manu: Raffayla Anderson</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Nadine: Karen Bach</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Director: Virginie Despentes</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Co-Director: Coralie Trinh Thi</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: Two women go on a sex and killing spree when one commits a murder after being raped and the other is depressed because her best friend is killed.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Normally, this section gets right to the plot, but in this case, an introduction is warranted.</div> <bR> <div> The mission statement of the distributor FilmFixx is that they are "…committed to distributing films that push the boundaries of freedom of expression and creatively question the human condition." Not only does this film do both, it does so along the lines of the warning for the film which you <B>must</B> take seriously…"This film contains prolonged sex scenes of an extremely explicit nature and scenes of graphic violence, which some viewers may find shocking and disturbing." The word "may" should be replaced with "will."</div> <bR> <div> The film is based upon a novel that is brutally savage with the clear intention of being disturbing. The reference point as to where your mind needs to be to start with is that you are "comfortable" with films like <I>Deep Throat</I> and <I>Natural Born Killers</I>. It's probably fair to say that you've not seen a film like this. What it will say to some is that it's total trash that focuses on women who have low moral values to begin with; who use the environment they are in as justification to only sink lower. In every way, this film is on the cutting edge of provocation. A review may <I>possibly</I> prepare you to see the film. If you decide to see it, you too will find it hard to describe to others; it must be seen to understand. The question is do you want to?</div> <bR> <div> Actresses Karen Bach and Raffayla Anderson are real life porn stars and when you see the sex in this film, you'll understand why they were chosen. It must have been quite interesting to be at the auditions <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Wingdings" >J</FONT>. Fortunately, both women are decent actresses so it does not have the staged and shallow feeling of the typical porn flick. </div> <bR> <div> In the film, Manu (Anderson) is a woman about five feet tall who does part time work in porn movies. Other than that, she spends time with her low life friends who make the people in <I><B>Snatch</B></I> look like the upper class. We learn that she's tough minded when she is brutally raped and manages to tell her friend, who also was raped at the same time, that it wasn't that bad because they could have been killed. Later she gets into an argument with her abusive brother because when he correctly guesses that she was raped, his concern is to seek revenge with no concern about how she feels about the rape itself. Before you know it, she has committed a murder and is on the run.</div> <bR> <div> Nadine (Bach) is a tall attractive call girl who shares an apartment with a woman who seems to not like anything about their arrangement. In particular, she wants no part of Nadine's best friend, who is a hard core junkie. When Nadine goes to visit him she sees him get killed in a drug deal gone bad. Because she has also killed her roommate, she freaks out and decides to take the bus to Paris.  </div> <bR> <div> Manu and Nadine meet at the bus station, when they are both desperate to leave town, and they learn that the next departure is in the morning, at least six hours away. They decide to steal a car and "get out of Dodge." What ensues are women doing what men have been doing for a long time, which is whatever they want to do to whomever they want to. <I>Baise Moi</I> would be hard to take even if the two were men. They would likely be perceived as caricatures of evil getting off on their testosterone impulses and violence they learned because of their love of guns and lack of respect for women.</div> <bR> <div> Seeing this type of behavior from women without a Hollywood spin, does indeed put more than a hard edge on this film.</div> <bR> <div> We realize that Manu and Nadine are out of control when they first steal a woman's ATM card to get some cash and then kill her in cold blood without any remorse whatsoever. Next <I>they</I> are picking up guys in a bar and taking them to their <I>room</I> for sex…very graphic sex that leaves nothing to the imagination… other than it might show you something you don't know. </div> <bR> <div> When the women are in a casino and a dork thinks he is picking them up, he gets what he wants only to find that when he's ready to stop, the women are not. One of his last realizations in life might have been that his biggest and hardest sex organ is between his ears. </div> <bR> <div> Just as the initial rape of Manu was horrific, what they do to the people in a "f--- club" is so over the top that I just can't find the words to describe it. How one person is killed is particularly cruel, but no more than a rapist deserves. It reminds me of how civilized and painless the execution was recently of a terrorist mass murderer as compared to the 180 plus victims he killed in Oklahoma...many of them suffered a long time before they died. They had no time for last good-byes and a final meal of their choice. By the time the club crime is committed and they do a house robbery of a man who thinks he can deal with them with his suaveness, the women realize that they will either die soon or spend the rest of their lives in jail.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: France would have been wise to not ban this film in that country. That is certain to give it more free publicity that it deserves. For sure, the tourist board would not depict either the people or the neighborhoods that we see on screen. The essence of the film is captured when the women observe that "...the more you f---, the less you think and the better you sleep."</div> <bR> <div> I'm sure that the makers of Coke, Jack Daniel's and Heineken did not pay and would probably love to not be so prominently and repeatedly used as product placements. Using these familiar products gives this film a sense of "normalcy."</div> <div> Manu and Nadine meet their fate, but not quite in the way that is expected. But then, most things in life fall outside of the script we have in our mind. One can be somewhat comfortable with being around people like Manu and Nadine depending on the circumstances (such as a nightclub with plenty of people around you). </div> <bR> <div> Films like <I><B>Once in the Life</B></I> and<I><B> </B></I><I><B>American Pimp</B></I> knock on the door of an underworld that many of us have either visited or been close to. <I>Baise Moi</I> takes us deep inside of a lifestyle that has little to no pretense of glamour. It<I> </I>not only crosses the line, it tumults beyond that line and where they eventually go. </div> <bR> <div> This film demonstrates why rapists deserve long jail terms or possibly castration. We also gain perspective as to how street people may go over the edge and it should give <I>johns </I>some pause about picking up women, whether as a one night stand in a bar or casino, or as a <I>trick </I>turned for money by a streetwalker.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="617"><div> Not Rated (hard core sex; nudity in all aspects; extensive drug use; very violent; extensive use of the "f" word seems mild considering the extremes of the film's other aspects)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>