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New Extreme Films (New Extremity or, also often, New French Extremity) describes a range of transgressive films made at the turn of the 21st century that sparked controversy, and provoked significant debate and discussion. They were notable for including graphic images of violence, especially sexual violence and rape, as well as explicit sexual ...
- Romance/Romance X (5.3) This 1999 film explores BDSM in a way that would make fans of Fifty Shades of Grey outright blush. A candid and emotionally complex portrait of a woman's sexual exploration, Catherine Breillat's film is tame, in some regards, when compared to some of the other titles in the movement.
- Trouble Every Day (6.0) Claire Denis is one of France's most celebrated indie filmmakers. This film from 2001 represents her attempt at a horror film. True to her own style, as well as the traditions of the "New French Extremity," Trouble Every Day is certainly not an easy watch.
- Frontier(s) (6.2) Frontier(s), directed by Xavier Gens, is the story of the world's worst hotel. On their way out of a politically tumultuous Paris, a group of Arab 20-somethings decides to stop at an inn run by a family of nazis.
- Them (6.4) Short, brutal, and full of incredible tension, Them was released in 2006 to warm reception from horror critics. The story of the 74-minute long ride is simple -- a couple is terrorized throughout the night by a group of unseen attackers.
- Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau, 2001) Intimacy is one of the most conservative, yet polemical, New French Extremity titles. Its charm lies in the particular glimpse of hope it offers us as well as in its development of the question; for it seems to seek all possible roots to subscribe the sexual impersonality discourse as if really wanting to do it without really getting it.
- Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000) Regarded as one of New French Extremity key points, Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi’s controversial Baise-moi (literally, Rape Me) follows Nadine and Manu’s spiral of violence, friendship and unforgiveness after they met on a subway station, just after having dealt with an issue of each one’s personal halo.
- Ma mère (Christophe Honoré, 2004) Based on a novel only Bataille could have come up with, Ma mère is one of New French Extremity’s most taboo-breaking and transgressive titles, a film very hard to watch.
- Calvaire (Fabrice Du Welz, 2004) Belgium’s major contribution to the genre so far, Calvaire deals with exploitation. A dark parade of blood and brutality, so far it doesn’t sound different from many non New French Extremity horror tittles we have seen or heard of.
Aug 5, 2021 · Seventeen years ago, critic James Quandt penned a piece for Artform, drawing attention to the rise of taboo in French Cinema. In his writing, he negatively coined a term for such horrors, “the New...
Jul 28, 2024 · Here we’re looking at films representing or inspiring New French Extremity. The term comes from a critic in Art Forum in 2004 named James Qudant, coining what the genre was slowly morphing into.
- EJ Moreno
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May 17, 2022 · Here, though, she is Coré, the beautiful wife of a Parisian doctor, who feeds her overwhelming desire for human flesh by seducing random men and ripping them apart with her teeth.
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Oct 3, 2019 · Starring Vincent Gallo as Vincent Gallo — sorry, as Dr. Shane Brown, the film follows Shane and his new wife, June (Tricia Vessey) as they journey to Paris for their honeymoon.
