Baise-moi’s Virginie Despentes Says Bonjour to Dalle with ‘Bye Bye’

There was once a time when Virginie Despentes’ Baise-Moi and Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day (a pair of films where men meet their demise via the hands of violent women) were often mentioned in the same sentence. Now, almost a decade later, those films might have crossed paths, as Despentes has cast Béatrice Dalle (she starred in Trouble Every Day) in the lead role for Bye Bye Blondie.

To be filmed this coming June, the film just received a round of funding, will also see Emmanuelle Béart and Pascal Gregory board the project.

Once again working from her own novel that she published in 2004, Gloria (Dalle) lives in Nancy. Unemployed, without a family, and with no permanent address, she wastes her days at a local watering hole. Frances (Béart) lives in Paris – she is a popular figure in television and is married to a novelist. While in the public eye they form the ideal couple, in their private lives, she prefers women and her husband is into boys. On a trip out to Nancy, Frances reunites with Gloria who she hasn’t see since 1985. Having met in a psychiatric ward, their big love story also happens to be Gloria’s biggest heartbreak. Life continued, but how will these two women from different realities find each other?

Any of our readers recall their first encounter with Baise-moi (a.k.a Fuck Me / Rape Me)?