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Virginie Despentes (2012)
by Dominica Vaughan BA (Hons) Fine Art
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Virginie Despentes (born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. Despentes settled in Lyon, where she worked as a maid, a prostitute in massage parlours and peep shows, a sales clerk in a record store, and a freelance rock journalist and pornographic film critic. She moved to Paris where her novel Les Jolies Choses was adapted for the screen in 2001 by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, with Marion Cotillard and Stomy Bugsy in the lead roles. The film was awarded the Michel d'Ornano prize at the 2001 Deauville Festival. In 2000, she directed her first film, an adaptation of her novel Baise-moi. It starred Coralie Trinh Thi, Karen Lancaume, and Raffaëla Anderson. Baise-moi is a contemporary example of a rape and revenge film, an exploitation films genre. In 2005, she wrote three songs for the album Va chercher la police for the group A.S. Dragon. In 2006, she published a non-fiction work, King Kong Theory. It recounts her experiences in the French sex industry and infamy and praise she experienced for writing Baise-Moi. In 2009 she directed her first documentary, Mutantes (Féminisme Porno Punk), which was broadcast on TV Pink. In 2010, her novel Apocalypse Bébé was awarded the Renaudot prize. Bye Bye Blondie was adapted for film with Béatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Béart. Cecilia Backes and Salima Boutebal produced a stage adaptation of King Kong Theory during the "Outside" Festival.