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- 2007
- Not Rated
- IFC First Take
- 1 h 40 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- IFC First Take
- 1 h 40 m
Summary From the director who scandalized France with "Secret Things" comes a film that will shock you, make you think and turn you on. (IFC First Take)
Directed By: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Written By: Jean-Claude Brisseau
- 2007
- Not Rated
- IFC First Take
- 1 h 40 m
- 2007
- Not Rated
- IFC First Take
- 1 h 40 m
The Exterminating Angels
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Summary From the director who scandalized France with "Secret Things" comes a film that will shock you, make you think and turn you on. (IFC First Take)
Directed By: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Written By: Jean-Claude Brisseau
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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6 Reviews
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6% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
54
38% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The problem with Exterminating Angels is that its explanatory side overwhelms its playfully perverse side.
Brisseau trains his deft camera on the crescendo of female sexual pleasure and how women can heighten the intensity of already blissful sensations via transgressive flourishes. If exiting viewers could all be asked "Was it good for you?" the likely answer is "Yes."
The content may be dubious, but the execution is hypnotic.
Unbelievably pretentious and a bit of a hoot but rarely boring.
Leave it to the French to take the joy back out of sex. The high-minded erotic drama Exterminating Angels 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.
Brisseau obviously aims to shock - and he does. Now shocking is A-OK with me - but only if it's part of a something bigger. Exterminating Angels is beautifully lensed and acted, but it lacks substance.
Exterminating Angels is meant as an autocritique--and yet the director can't get past his notion of himself as a fearlessly transgressive artist-hero, a martyr to the limitations of male gaze.
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Awards
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
