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The Exterminating Angels

Original title: Les anges exterminateurs
  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 40m
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5.3/10
3.3K
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Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
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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.
IMDb RATING
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3.3K
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  • Director
    • Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Writer
    • Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Stars
    • Frédéric van den Driessche
    • Maroussia Dubreuil
    • Lise Bellynck
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  • Director
    • Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Writer
    • Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Stars
    • Frédéric van den Driessche
    • Maroussia Dubreuil
    • Lise Bellynck
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 25User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    The Exterminating Angels
    Trailer 1:55
    The Exterminating Angels

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    Frédéric van den Driessche and Sophie Bonnet in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Frédéric van den Driessche, Marie Allan, and Maroussia Dubreuil in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Marie Allan in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Frédéric van den Driessche in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Maroussia Dubreuil and Lise Bellynck in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Frédéric van den Driessche in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Frédéric van den Driessche in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
    Frédéric van den Driessche in Les anges exterminateurs (2006)
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    Frédéric van den Driessche
    Frédéric van den Driessche
    • Françoisas François
    Maroussia Dubreuil
    • Charlotteas Charlotte
    Lise Bellynck
    Lise Bellynck
    • Julieas Julie
    Marie Allan
    Marie Allan
    • Stéphanieas Stéphanie
    Sophie Bonnet
    • La femme de Françoisas La femme de François
    Raphaële Godin
    • Apparition 1as Apparition 1…
    Margaret Zenou
    • Apparition 2as Apparition 2
    Jeanne Cellard
    • La grand-mèreas La grand-mère
    Virginie Legeay
    • Virginieas Virginie
    Estelle Galarme
    • Oliviaas Olivia
    Marine Danaux
    • Agnèsas Agnès
    Apolline Louis
    • Célineas Céline
    François Négret
    François Négret
    • L'ami de Stéphaneas L'ami de Stéphane
    Christophe Maillard
    • Le producteuras Le producteur
    Françoise Bonnet
    • La voisine escalieras La voisine escalier
    Olivier Perrot
    • Le gendarmeas Le gendarme
    Jean-Claude Brisseau
    Jean-Claude Brisseau
    • Un assistant tournageas Un assistant tournage
    • (uncredited)
    María Luisa García
    María Luisa García
    • La maquilleuseas La maquilleuse
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean-Claude Brisseau
    • Writer
      • Jean-Claude Brisseau
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    • Trivia
      Lise Bellynck, Marie Allan and Maroussia Dubreuil, the three leading actresses, talked about the erotic auditions for this film: Bellynck said: "I did an erotic audition the first time I saw Jean-Claude. We went to the cafe, he said to me:" It's now or never ... " I said to myself: "What am I risking?" He wasn't going to rape me or kidnap me, I wasn't afraid of him. I thought about Choses secrètes (2002) and I dared. " Allan said: "We had a coffee, then we were in the set planned for the shoot, and I touched myself in front of him. I didn't really know if I was going to be able to do that, I'm a little embarrassed about my body. I really wanted to be taken, but also afraid to show myself to Brisseau. But I managed to fake an orgasm. " Dubreuil said: "My first attempt was with Lise. We played the first erotic scene of the film, as a duet, in the hotel room. I immediately felt that we were in a search, a job on eroticism, we weren't doing anything. In my head, there was no longer any question of me not being taken for the role. "
    • 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

    User reviews25

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    3/10
    Boring
    My girlfriend and I saw this at the IFC in NYC on Friday night. I went to film school, she studied French in college, we both loved Short Bus - we thought this would be fun date movie. Man, were we wrong.

    As a film that's trying to be "art" it humorlessly apes just about every art film convention from the early days of Bergman to Wenders Wings of Desire. It is literally a shopping list of art film cliché's. That in itself would not be a crime if the film's treatment of these cliché's wasn't so boring. As well, the script is mediocre at best. Maybe this is due to a bad translation, but my girl, who speaks French, told me the translation was fairly accurate. And cinematagraphicaly, the film is just shot badly. Many shots are ackwardly framed and staged. It reminded me of Kevin Smith's Clerks, only at least Clerks had a strong story and clever script that over came it's tech limitations. This whole film just feels slightly less than mediocre on every level.

    As for the story, the director wants us to believe that his doppleganger in the film is observing these woman play out their erotic fantasies because he doesn't understand female pleasure. But it's obvious that he enjoyed watching three girls get naked and screw each other. Just because he didn't touch them doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it egotistically. Yet the film never holds him accountable for this. He is presented as a victim of crazy actresses, an unsympathetic wife, a corrupt judicial system, and ultimately a victim of fate or divinity itself. The film seems to ask us to envy his power at getting these girls to kink it out in front of him at his beck and call and at the same time we are suppose to sympathize at what a good husband, artist, and father figure he is and how nobody understands what a victim he really is. It just doesn't work. Apparently, the events of the film are based on a real situation that happened to the film's director. This story sounds like something a philandering husband would tell his wife about being taken to a strip club. "No, dear, I didn't enjoy it all. I spent the whole time talking with the girls about Hobbes and Locke." Bullsh!t. Also, there is a lot of talk about taboos in the film. Apparently, the director's idea of taboo is having sex in a hotel room. Oh, how daring! Lastly, there are two fairly sexy sequences in the film. However, they are almost completely ruined by the film's score. Every time the girls start to get naked, this bizarre 80's horror film score comes on the soundtrack. This combined with the bad writing and staging just kills any feelings of arousal you may have. Throughout the screening people would just get up and leave. And when the final "tragic" moments of the film were played out the whole theatre was laughing at how bad it was. The only thing anyone was talking about as we filed out into the lobby was how much we wanted our money and time back.
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    • etrenkamp
    • Mar 12, 2007

    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 13, 2006 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Les anges exterminateurs
    • Production companies
      • TS Productions
      • La Sorcière Rouge
      • Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,308
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,485
      • Mar 11, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $154,210
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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