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The Exterminating Angels
Directed by
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Not Rated
2007
1h 43m
Drama
,
Fantasy
5.4
49%
33%
5.3
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A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure.
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Cast of The Exterminating Angels
Maroussia Dubreuil
Charlotte
Lise Bellynck
Julie / Associate Producer
Marie Allan
Stéphanie
Frédéric van den Driessche
François
Jeanne Cellard
Grandmother
Margaret Zenou
Apparition 2
Raphaële Godin
Apparition 1 / Rebecca
Estelle Galarme
Olivia
Sophie Bonnet
Francois' Wife
Virginie Legeay
Virginie
François Négret
Stéphane's friend
Marine Danaux
Agnès
Apolline Louis
Céline
Olivier Perrot
Gendarme
Christophe Maillard
Producer
Françoise Bonnet
Neighbor on the stairs
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Director / Writer
Gilles Sacuto
Producer
Miléna Poylo
Producer
Wilfrid Sempé
Director Of Photography
The Exterminating Angels Ratings & Reviews
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A complex, confessional examination of [Jean-Claude Brisseau's] twisted, thorny and ultimately ambiguous feelings toward women and sex.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Stamets
Endless auditions get the annoying Francois nowhere closer to grasping what turns women on.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Critics I admire have assured me that many of Brisseau's earlier films are less silly, more interesting, and even commendable.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Gorgeous French silliness, yes, featuring stunning women having languorous, artful sex with each other. What was I saying? Oh yes, the silliness. Artful, gorgeous, sexy, sure, but ridiculous nonetheless.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
[Director] Brisseau calculatedly offsets the silliness of the surreal elements and the earnestness applied to the sex by savoring the overall absurdity.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Brisseau honors the infinitely varying psyches of his female subjects. One may scoff at his voyeuristic self-indulgence, but when you come right down to it, isn't that what the cinema is all about, one way or another?
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Has heat but little light; it speaks of pleasure while treating it as a dirty word. The cast huffs and puffs but the exercise, sadly, remains academic.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Exterminating Angels is undeniably arousing.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is the stuff of male fantasy.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Beneath its rueful humor, surrealistic conceits and alluring interludes, Exterminating Angels emerges as a cautionary examination of erotica's pleasures and perils.
The Hollywood Reporter
Alternately provocative and highly silly, the film overcomes its more ludicrous aspects through its glossy visual style, its frequent doses of humor and the obvious associations it evokes to its creator's real-life experiences.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Exterminating Angels is beautifully lensed and acted, but it lacks substance.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie, for all its huffing and puffing, explores very little, even if some of it is sexy in a Howard Stern-meets-9 1/2 Weeks way.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A date that begins with the salacious movie Exterminating Angels is likely to end up either in bed or in court.
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
Exterminating Angels is one audaciously, endearingly ludicrous movie.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The director can't get past his notion of himself as a fearlessly transgressive artist-hero, a martyr to the limitations of male gaze. With all those lovely naked women helping him act out his own Promethean fall, it's less autocritique than autoeroticism
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Exterminating Angels is a luminous picture, beautifully made, loaded with symbolism and mystical-religious imagery, about an artist's self-destructive quest for an unreachable grail.
House Next Door
Keith Uhlich
The beauties of Brisseau's movies lie in their defiantly messy imperfections: pretty poison all the way.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Exterminating Angels is Jean-Claude Brisseau's Sex is Comedy, though it could just as easily have been called Anatomy of Hell.
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