Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!
The mix of real sex and fake-looking violence in this 2000 French feature is curiously unprovocative.
– Lisa Alspector,
Chicago Reader,
8 Feb 2010
rotten:
Baise-Moi is like a cheapie, vintage American exploitation movie, only one that goes so far beyond the bounds of taste that its affrontiveness becomes in large part what the film is about.
– Eric Harrison,
Houston Chronicle,
24 Feb 2002
rotten:
Too ideologically earnest for the porn crowd and too hard-core for serious audiences.
– Jay Carr,
Boston Globe,
30 Nov 2001
rotten:
The movie's only value is in unwittingly defining more clearly how played out the whole transgressing-boundaries- as-art thing has become.
– Charles Savage,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct 2001
rotten:
Like an eager kid trying too hard to be noticed, it ends up just being tiresome.