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...most extreme film of the bunch. Co-directed by the novelist Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, who has worked in the French porn industry, it employs real hard-core scenes, many of them brutal, to illustrate its story of two gals on the run. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is a porn star, Nadine (Karen Bach) a hooker with a short fuse. Each woman kills a man, and the two go on a shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious and original work...
...more importantly, Swept Away itself has clear comic overtones. Raffaela is too bitchy, too hysterically ludicrous, not to be a conscious caricature; the island, whose tropical climate never changes, is so lush and idyllic that Gennarino has only to reach into the water to produce a giant lobster. Surely whatever happens here cannot be a direct statement about the real world...
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