Watch The Exterminating Angels For Free
The Exterminating Angels
A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.
Release : | 2006 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | CNC, TS Productions, CinéCinéma, |
Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
Cast : | Maroussia Dubreuil Lise Bellynck Marie Allan Frédéric van den Driessche Jeanne Cellard |
Genre : | Fantasy Drama |
Watch Trailer
Cast List
Related Movies
Reviews
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
This is a very short movie for all the content it packs. It feels like several movies at the same time, and it execution is flawless. One of the film's dimensions is its spiritual world, barely touched in the film which only gives us hints of this world through bizarre dialogue and the creatures that are the namesake of the film. Another of its dimensions is its discussion on female desire: a subject rarely explored in film and for which alone it deserves praise. It even explores, in yet further dimensions, female psychology, gender roles, and society's view on them. This is also, undoubtedly, an erotic film, and a very good one at that, which is rare for erotic films, which tend toward sleaziness and pseudoporn. As an erotic film it focuses on desire and fantasy, not arousal and gratification. It features interesting characters, good dialogue and plot, intertwining its multitude of dimensions. In 100 minutes or less, with so many layers on it, the film has no time for gratuitous sex shots.
This movie is about a director who wants to make a film, with a plot which has never been done before. He tries to experiment with various unusual ways to push the boundaries of "what should be" or "what should'nt be". In spite of the warnings by his loved ones he gives himself up to his curiosity. He lets his lust control his actions. The lust forces him to venture forbidden territory (or taboo, as one might call it). His lust eventually, drives him to a place filled with deceit, pain and despair. Overall I feel the movie is only worth watching for an audience who can cope with the darkness and the ill-feeling which the movie makes you feel. That is why I did not like the movie because I felt the story was not so brilliant and too strange to be very honest.
I have never been so utterly disgusted by a movie since I saw The Birth of a Nation - but at least I understood WHY that movie was the way it was. Where as we can use the excuse that D.W. Griffith was born in a closed-minded time while objectively looking at his movie, the same cannot be said for the director of Exterminating Angels.Perhaps if the movie was not based on real life events, it would render me with some other emotion besides disgust for all those involved. The fact that he believes he never did anything wrong is just astounding. Not only were his actual actions as a director insanely un-professional, he backed up his supposed innocence by portraying the females in this movie in a VERY negative light.This is nothing but the phsyical masturbation of a male-written lesbian porno flick with the mental masturbation of a non-sensical, pretentious, low-budget film that is trying way to hard to be "artsy".
This is one of those movies that you love or hate, but that moves you anyway. It has so many details, so many reactions of the characters so the pleasures game that the director wants to play that is difficult for me to treat the film only in only direction or conclusion. As you may have read before, it tells us about a film director in his forties that is shooting an erotic scene and he discovers how the actress enjoys breaking the taboo of masturbation in front of a camera. She tells him how intense and marvelous that feeling was, but after a time they meet by random and she tells him he traumatized her... now the director is interested about what crosses to someone's mind when breaking a rule himself has imposed. I will not say this is a psychologist study, nor a pornographic film although the extremely explicit content, but it is such and intense and dark look about how we can become blind by our passions instead of use our head and the advices we receive from our friends (wife and grandmother in the film). And we all know how naturally and honestly french talk about feelings, which make the film believable. For me, it was a whole experience and, with the Danish film Princess, and maybe the Swish Snow White and Brannagh's The Magic Flute, the only worthy film of the Sevilla 06 film festival.