{"id":6248,"date":"2026-03-17T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:50:08","slug":"baise-moi-by-virginie-despentes-and-coralie-trinh-thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/03\/17\/baise-moi-by-virginie-despentes-and-coralie-trinh-thi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Baise-moi<\/em> by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 <em>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em> as <em>Natural Born Killers<\/em> in <em>La Haine<\/em> but more explicit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Noisy digital video to 35mm transfer fully consistent with script, direction, and music.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Puzzling scene without function: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/2002\/feature-articles\/baise-moi\/\" target=\"somethingUnique\">turns out<\/a> quantitative replaced qualitative escalation.<\/p>\n<p>It reflects badly on humanity that legitimate sex would pass here, however turbulently, but be fiercely unacceptable in sf, romcom, or any other genre.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"important\">Addendum<\/span><br \/>\nBy \u201clegitimate sex\u201d I mean \u201cnot gratuitous,\u201d i.e., thematically\/dramatically legitimate. Sorry for the confusion!<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a target=\"somethingUnique\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baise-moi\"><em>Baise-moi<\/em><\/a> by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on March 16, 2026, in its original language with subtitles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/03\/17\/baise-moi-by-virginie-despentes-and-coralie-trinh-thi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Baise-moi by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Not liked by Nazis.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}