Endless auditions get the annoying Francois nowhere closer to grasping what turns women on.
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05/11/07
Exterminating Angels (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:9
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.7/10
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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Top CriticCritics I admire have assured me that many of Brisseau's earlier films are less silly, more interesting, and even commendable.
05/10/07
Top CriticThe content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic.
05/10/07
Top CriticGorgeous 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 Critic[Director] Brisseau calculatedly offsets the silliness of the surreal elements and the earnestness applied to the sex by savoring the overall absurdity.
04/12/07
Top CriticMr. 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?
03/21/07
Top CriticHas 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 CriticThis is the stuff of male fantasy.
03/09/07
Top CriticBeneath its rueful humor, surrealistic conceits and alluring interludes, Exterminating Angels emerges as a cautionary examination of erotica's pleasures and perils.
03/08/07
Top CriticAlternately 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.
03/07/07
Top CriticExterminating Angels is beautifully lensed and acted, but it lacks substance.
03/07/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticA date that begins with the salacious movie Exterminating Angels is likely to end up either in bed or in court.
03/07/07
Top CriticExterminating Angels is one audaciously, endearingly ludicrous movie.
03/06/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticExterminating 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.
03/01/07
Top CriticMaestro of pulse-quickening simulated sex Jean-Claude Brisseau offers a frequently funny, authentically arousing and seemingly autobiographical tale.
05/22/06
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