It's not smart enough to actually pull off what it purports to do, and it's not free enough to simply enjoy itself.
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05/10/07
Exterminating Angels (2007)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:20
Rotten:23
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Explicit and shocking, but there is no substance or statement on human behavior underneath the taboo-breaking.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: François, a filmmaker, is preparing a thriller. During screen tests for a brief nude scene with an actress, he discovers the pleasure some women can have in the transgression of minor erotic... [More]
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Reviews for Exterminating Angels
An act of nearly overwhelming self-congratulation ... like Wings of Desire directed by Zalman King.
03/08/07
It's hard to tell if Brisseau is a raging misogynist or a radical feminist, and what makes the movie interesting is that he's probably a little bit of both.
04/26/07
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.
05/04/07
Top CriticThe only thing shocking about this French film is its Puritanical finale.
03/06/07
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.
03/16/07
Top CriticCan the modern man handle Brisseau's cup of tea? The answer: Dude! All-girl threesome!
03/06/07
By the end, you're likely to be left wondering, 'What was the point of what I just watched?'
03/06/07
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
03/05/07
Top CriticErection-inducing but borderline gynophobic.
02/22/07
The cinematic equivalent of getting drenched with a splash of ice water.
06/01/07
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.
03/07/07
Top CriticExterminating Angels is Jean-Claude Brisseau's Sex is Comedy, though it could just as easily have been called Anatomy of Hell.
02/10/07
It was good for me.
02/28/07
... plenty of heat, not all that much light.
04/12/07
The coldness of the artist in observing life is here so embarrassingly done as to unintentionally bring about titters, not titillations.
03/02/07
This is the stuff of male fantasy.
03/09/07
Top CriticThe film is ultimately infuriating, subtle, self-indulgent, astute and disingenuous, which makes for great -- if divisive -- conversation.
03/07/07
... the film is passably entertaining but dramatically inert.
07/14/07
Exterminating Angels is undeniably arousing.
03/10/07
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