UK Premiere
Director and author Virginie Despentes burst onto the scene with the controversial Rape Me (Baise-moi) and has since become a tour de force in the French hardcore feminist movement with her publication King Kong Theory, Despentes’ candid account of how she became notorious. She tones things down in this film, the tale of two lovers who look to rekindle their romance despite a tumultuous past as Sex Pistol-worshipping punk rockers. A tender-hearted tale of punked out lesbian love, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Béatrice Dalle. Bye Bye Blondie is cinematically freewheeling and is emotionally sincere in its portrayal of a star-crossed couple struggling to make it together for a second time.