Biography
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Her work is an inventory of youth marginalization; it participates 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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Les scandaleuses
2024
as Self
Béatrice Dalle, Lio, Brigitte Fontaine, Corinne Masiero, Aïssa Maïga, Virginie Despentes, Maria Schneider, Gisèle Halimi, Juliette Gréco, and Adèle Ha...
Les Malvenus
2024
Co-Writer
After the trial concerning the inheritance of the family farm, which pits him against his brother, Luc finally fulfills his desire to leave Paris and ...
Orlando, My Political Biography
2023
Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman. ...
Vernon Subutex 1
2021
Novel
Bye Bye Blondie
2012
Director, Writer
A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
2009
Director
Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, ...
Teen Spirit
2007
Novel
A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part ...
Pretty Things
2001
Novel
Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently...
Baise-moi
2000
Director, Novel, Screenplay
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 trig...
Chiennes, prenez garde !
1999
A woman travels, reads and remembers a sexual encounter.
dans le lit de Lola
1996
Director