Aside from Driessche, men appear in “The Exterminating Angels” only peripherally, but the film is stocked with a panoply of women, corporeal – the auditions narrow to three twentysomethings, Charlotte ...

Anyone who doubts that moviemaking is an essentially masturbatory endeavor would do well to come — preferably alone — to Jean-Claude Brisseau’s The Exterminating Angels. Women may often have the upper ...

I was born in 1944 and when I was a child I went to the movies three or four times per week, with my mother or, more often, alone. My mother was a cleaning woman and we did not have money. I ...

François is a film-maker, usually impassive and without affect. He's making a film about women's pleasure as they transgress taboos. He doesn't know that two fallen angels who've been sent to upend ...

Gallic helmer Jean-Claude Brisseau’s sexually explicit “Exterminating Angels” is doing boffo for sales outfit Rezo Intl. The Directors Fortnight pic, which has played to packed theaters here, has sold ...

Maestro of pulse-quickening simulated sex Jean-Claude Brisseau offers a frequently funny, authentically arousing and seemingly autobiographical tale in "Exterminating Angels.' If exiting viewers could ...

In 2005, French writer-director Jean-Claude Brisseau was convicted of sexual harassment for pressuring actresses to masturbate in his presence during auditions for his feature Secret Things. Now he’s ...

Based on actual events in the director’s life, Exterminating Angels will shock you, make you think and turn you on. Francois is a filmmaker holding auditions for his upcoming film about female ...