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Virginie Despentes on Aging Punks, Failing Economies, and Fetishizing the Dead
Bye Bye Blondie
Virginie Despentes: ‘What is going on in men’s heads when women’s pleasure has become a problem?’
Her Books and Movies Provoked France. Will Her Plays Do the Same?
A French Punk Feminist Takes on #MeToo and Addiction (Published 2024)
Amazon Prime Video France Looks to Recruit Women and Younger Audiences With New Romances and Adaptations of Virginie Despentes’ and Joël Dicker’s Books (Exclusive)
Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces: Virginie Despentes’s Pretty Things
Vernon Subutex 3 by Virginie Despentes review — a final dive into gleeful Gallic filth
Vernon Subutex 1: Hilarious, political, brimming with life
Virginie Despentes: "Pretty Things"
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. In 2000 she directed her first film, Baise-moi, an adaptation of her 1993 novel.
Virginie Despentes on Aging Punks, Failing Economies, and Fetishizing the Dead
"Poignant Tender The final line of em The Rest of Our Lives em is by…" CrimeReads on Twitter. My Tweets. Read More. Matthew McBride on Working...
Bye Bye Blondie
I wrote Bye Bye Blondie when I was 34. The idea for the novel came out of my personal experience. I had a stepdaughter who occasionally lived with her dad...
Virginie Despentes: ‘What is going on in men’s heads when women’s pleasure has become a problem?’
Never was there a generation of women who were told so clearly: when you go out of your front door there is...
Her Books and Movies Provoked France. Will Her Plays Do the Same?
Over the past three decades, Virginie Despentes has cemented her place as one of the most admired — and argued over — feminist authors in...
A French Punk Feminist Takes on #MeToo and Addiction (Published 2024)
“Dear Dickhead” is an epistolary story, built around correspondence between Rebecca, an aging movie star, and Oscar, an author accused of sexual harassment.
Amazon Prime Video France Looks to Recruit Women and Younger Audiences With New Romances and Adaptations of Virginie Despentes’ and Joël Dicker’s Books (Exclusive)
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Prepare a Face to Meet the Faces: Virginie Despentes’s Pretty Things
It earned Despentes a feminist cult following. Her books feature stylized focus on intense scenarios that approach the trouble of misogyny with...
Vernon Subutex 3 by Virginie Despentes review — a final dive into gleeful Gallic filth
Vernon Subutex 1, 2 and 3 is Despentes' fearless dissection of contemporary France through a chorus of extraordinary, often extreme voices.
Vernon Subutex 1: Hilarious, political, brimming with life
At the Schaubühne, Thomas Ostermeier's adaptation of the Virginie Despentes novel is a fully alive panorama of neoliberalism.
Virginie Despentes
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Writer and filmmaker whose outspoken commentary and essays on sexual violence and feminism made her a prominent intellectual voice supporting the movement in France.