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5.4/10
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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.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Jean-Claude Brisseau
- Un assistant tournage
- (uncredited)
María Luisa García
- La maquilleuse
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSuffusing 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinema According to Brisseau (2007)
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sets out to capture the beauty of the female nude during orgasm
This film is nothing like as meaningful as I am sure the makers would have wished but neither is it tosh. Brisseau tells of a director who sets out to capture the beauty of the female nude during orgasm. Not interested in the porn actresses' rehearsed turns he seeks young women not used to performing the act so that he might thereby capture the 'mystical moments'. He also proposes that if she transgresses the norm she will more likely reach the maximum sensations. Hence, we get masturbation in a restaurant, in a hotel room with the door open, with other girls etc. I do not particularly take issue with any of this but I just don't think it's particularly profound. It is a slight theory which if proved does not really lead us anywhere. Where it does lead us of course is to the frank and pretty explicit presentation of some pretty erotic scenes. Not all bad then! Simple enough to start with this gradually turns into a melodrama involving the director's wife, the girls' partners and even the police and the ghost of his grandmother. Gradually we seem to loose sight of what seemed the film's only premise, but who knows maybe Brisseau really was making a film about the nature of love and how men and women are affected so differently.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Les anges exterminateurs
- Filming locations
- Rue Pierre Semard, 9th arrondissement, Paris, France(Street shown at 0: 27: 15 and 1: 18: 20)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $23,308
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,485
- Mar 11, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $154,210
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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