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Baise-moi
''Baise-moi'' is a 2000 French crime thriller film written and directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi and starring Karen Lancaume and Raffaëla Anderson. It is based on the novel by Despentes, first published in 1993. The film received intense media coverage because of its graphic mix of violence and explicit sex scenes. Consequently, it is sometimes considered an example of the "New French Extremity". As a French noun, ''un baiser'' means "a kiss", but as a verb, ''baiser'' means "to fuck", so ''Baise-moi'' () means "Fuck me". In some markets the film has been screened as "Rape me", but the French for "rape me" is "viole-moi". In a 2002 interview, ''Rape Me'' was rejected by the directors. In 2000, the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia banned the film outright because of "very high-impact violence and sexual content throughout." Later that same year, the film was banned in Singapore owing to "depictions of sexual violence hatmay cause controversy." In Australia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it pertains to the sexual revolution lived by Generation X and to the acclimation of pornography in public spaces through new communication techniques. With a transgressive exploration of obscenity's limits, as a novelist or a film-maker she proposes social critique and an antidote to the new moral order. Her characters deal with misery and injustice, self-violence such as drug addiction, or violence towards others such as rape or terrorism, violences she has also suffered from. She is one of the most popular French authors from this era. "Despentes is a legend in France, especially among young women. Much of this reputation rests on her first novel, ''Baise-moi'' (1994)" "Although mostly unknown in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Lancaume
Karen Lancaume (born Karine Bach, 19 January 1973 – 28 January 2005) was a French pornographic film actress. She appeared in over 83 pornographic films between 1996 and 2000. She starred as Nadine in the 2000 film, '' Baise-moi'', a mainstream film in which she performed unsimulated penetration and fellatio. She was a nominee for the Best French Actress Hot d'Or in March 2000. Early life Karine Bach was born in the suburbs of Lyon, France, into a wealthy family. Her father was German and her mother was Moroccan. She spent her childhood in the Lyon countryside and completed her studies in communications. She stated that she had her first sexual experience at the age of 17, just before embarking on her university course, and that she worked weekends at a nightclub to pay for her studies. At the nightclub, she met Franck Ceronne, a disc jockey, whom she married. The couple divorced in 1997. Career In 1996, to escape their crippling debts, at Franck's suggestion, the couple beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffaëla Anderson
Raffaëla Anderson (born Malika Amrane on 8 January 1976) is a French former adult film performer. During her porn career, she was often credited as Raphaëlla (also spelled Raphaëla). Career Anderson studied to be a secretary. She entered the French pornography business in 1994 at the age of 18 and left it four years later. Still a virgin at that time, she had her first sexual intercourse with a porn actor on a film set.Raffaëla Anderson interview '' Tout le monde en parle'', 5 May 2001 During her adult film career, she was raped by two men who had recognized her. Her aggressors were identified but, according to her own account, the public prosecutor told her that she was "the product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Scott (actor)
Ian Scott (born 6 February 1973) is a French pornographic actor and director starting from 1996 and is still active. He is also known by the aliases Yannick and Yanick Shaft. He has performed in over 2,200 films. Biography Ian Scott began a career in pornography in 1996, when he was 23 years old, in a film by Patrice Cabanel. In 1999, he was credited as Yannick Dambrinne and performed in a French porn called ''Wild Wild West'', directed by Fabien Lafait. In 2000, he played one of the rapists in the controversial film ''Baise-moi'' by Virginie Despentes. Also, that year was the first time he was directed by Fred Coppula in ''Niqueurs-nés'', an X-rated parody of ''Natural Born Killers''. He then appeared in ''Max, portrait d'un sérial niqueur'', a fake documentary, where he played the lead role. The next year, he wrote and directed, ''Max 2'' and, in 2006 and 2007, ''Max 3''. In ''La Collectionneuse'', Clara Morgane and her boyfriend Greg Centauro appear with Scott. In 2010, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Costes
Jean-Louis Costes (born 13 May 1954) is a French noise musician, performance artist and film actor. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin, though unlike Allin's rudimentary brand of hardcore punk, Costes' music is largely synth-driven, relying heavily on looped beats, overmodulated vocals, and random outbursts of screaming and glitch fills. Career He was once married to Lisa Crystal Carver with whom he performed in Suckdog. He helped write the backing music for the "noise opera" music of the Suckdog Circus. His albums include '' Hung by the Dick'' from Nihilist Records. Shows I2003 he performed a so-called "porno-social opera" entitled the ''Holy Virgin Cult'' (''Le Culte de la Vierge'') across the United States with two other performers credited as "Tristan" and "Nesi". The performance was approximately 90 minutes long, with three distinct acts and shorter vignettes, and followed a prerecorded soundtrack. Each act began with the performers dressed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Godeau
Philippe Godeau () is a French film producer, director and screenwriter. Godeau worked in distribution at the Gaumont Film Company before founding the production and distribution film company Pan-Européenne. Godeau has produced many films including ''An Independent Life'' (1992), ''Bad Company'' (1999), ''Lightweight'' (2004), '' Les Sœurs fâchées'' (2004), ''Largo Winch'' (2008) and '' Romantics Anonymous'' (2010). He collaborated with Jaco Van Dormael in '' The Eighth Day'' (1996) and '' Mr. Nobody'' (2009). Godeau has worked with Maurice Pialat, Virginie Despentes, and Jean-Pierre Améris. His directorial debut was the 2009 drama '' One for the Road'', starring François Cluzet, Mélanie Thierry and Michel Vuillermoz. Based on reporter Herve Chabalier's autobiography about his battle with alcoholism, the story takes place in a French Alps retreat where Cluzet confronts his dangerous addiction. The film received five nominations at the César Awards 2010 with Mélanie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan-Européenne
Pan-Européenne is a French film production and publishing company. Originally only distribution company, in 1992 it began also a production company, producing ''Beau fixe''. It has produced various films, including Jaco Van Dormael's '' The Eighth Day'' (1996) and '' Mr. Nobody'' (2009), Jérôme Salle's ''Largo Winch'' (2008), and distributed Bryan Singer's ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995), Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's ''Sin City'' (2005). History Pan-Européenne was created in the late 1980s by Philippe Godeau. By distributing films such as Jaco Van Dormael's '' Toto the Hero'' (1991), Cyril Collard's ''Savage Nights'' (1992), and Jacques Audiard's '' See How They Fall'' (1994), Pan-Européenne began its activity of production company. The film studio Polygram entrusted to the company the distribution of their films in France. In 1999 it ended the partnership following the acquisition of Polygram by Universal. The restructuring of the group divides into two branches the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coralie Trinh Thi
Coralie Trinh Thi (born 11 April 1976) is a former pornographic actress, also known for writing and directing with Virginie Despentes the film ''Baise-moi'' (2000). During her career as a porn performer, she was generally just credited as Coralie. She won a Hot d'Or Award for Best European Actress in 1996, and she received a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009. She acted in the Gaspar Noé Gaspar Noé (, ; born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine filmmaker based in Paris, France. He is the son of Argentine painter, writer, and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. In the early 1990s, Noé along with his wife Lucile Hadžihalilović were ...-directed short film '' Sodomites'' that was made as a safe-sex promo for French television in the late 1990s. Bibliography * Trinh Thi, Coralie. La Voie Humide — Une Œuvre au Rouge. Vauvert: Au diable Vauvert, 2007. * Trinh Thi, Coralie. Osez... la sodomie. Paris: La Musardine, 2007. * Trinh Thi, Coralie. Betty Monde. Vauvert: Au diable Vauv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New French Extremity
New French Extremity (New French Extremism or, informally, New French Extreme) is a term coined by ''Artforum'' critic James Quandt for a collection of transgressive films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century. Also available othe ArtForum website. The said filmmakers were also discussed by Jonathan Romney in ''The Independent''. Quandt associates François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Claire Denis' '' Trouble Every Day'' (2001), Patrice Chéreau's ''Intimacy'' (2001), Bertrand Bonello's '' The Pornographer'' (2001), Marina de Van's '' In My Skin'' (2002), Leos Carax's ''Pola X'' (1999), Philippe Grandrieux's ''Sombre'' (1998) and '' La vie nouvelle'' (2002), Jean-Claude Brisseau's '' Secret Things'' (2002), Jacques Nolot's '' Glowing Eyes'' (2002), Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's ''Baise-moi'' (2000), and Alexandre Aja's ''High Tension'' (2003) with the label. While Quandt intended the term as pejorative, many so labeled h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ''"Bordelais"'' (masculine) or ''"Bordelaises"'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 260,958 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , With its 27 suburban municipalities it forms the Bordeaux Metropolis, in charge of metropolitan issues. With a population of 814,049 at the Jan. 2019 census. it is the fifth most populated in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille and ahead of Toulouse. Together with its suburbs and exurbs, except satellite cities of Arcachon and Libourne, the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,363,711 that same year (Jan. 2019 censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biarritz
Biarritz ( , , , ; Basque also ; oc, Biàrritz ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. It is a luxurious seaside tourist destination known for the Hôtel du Palais (originally built for the Empress Eugénie circa 1855), its casinos in front of the sea and its surfing culture. Geography Biarritz is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is part of the arrondissement of Bayonne. It is adjacent to Bayonne and Anglet and from the border with Spain. It is in the traditional province of Labourd in the French Basque Country. Gallery File:Édouard_Zier_-_Les_baigneuses_à_Biarritz.jpg, ''Les baigneuses à Biarritz'', by Édouard François Zier File:Biarritz1999.jpg, Biarritz from the Pointe Saint-Martin. File:Grande Plage de Biarritz.jpg, ''La Grande Plage'', the town's lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern France, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called ''Marseillais''. Marseille is the second most populous city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of . Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over , had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
