The Exterminating Angels

Original title: Les anges exterminateurs

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.5K

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A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure.A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure.A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his project about female pleasure.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Trivia
Suffusing the film are the facts of Jean-Claude Brisseau's own life: after the casting of his 2002 baroque-noir Secret Things (2002), during which he required the sexual complicity of his would-be starlets, four hopeful actresses, none of whom appeared in the final film, accused the director of harassment. He was charged, fined, let off with a suspended sentence.

Quotes
Apparition 1: You're 20. You're beautiful. You're young.The world's at your feet. You use your charms. But it doesn't last. You become less beautiful. Your hold on people starts to weaken. There's always someone who makes you pay the price.

Connections
Featured in Cinema According to Brisseau (2007)

Soundtracks
Sexy Ladies
Written by Alexis Pecharman
Performed by Alexis Pecharman

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Featured review

6/10

Postsefalu is correct

I feel that I should watch the film again (which I will not, because I don't want to, because it was very disturbing, and although it was, I admit, exciting, physically, and I am definitely a woman who loves men, I don't want to see it again because it made me sad, disconsolate) before I give my point of view, which, by the way, I have never done before in this venue, but-- Postsefalu is correct: "the camera-eye is registering: passion,loneliness, madness and ... love." I saw this movie yesterday and what registered most with me today is the fact that the women were in love with the man who directed them. As was his wife. He should have taken the love he was offered. He lost everything because he was trying to turn it into something else--art? But I know nothing about art.