grodscorp@grods.comMIFF ‘07 film review: Exterminating Angels
 | Posted by Scott on Sunday 29 July 2007, 9:37 pm Categories: MIFF '07 Tags: ExterminatingAngels, MIFF |
Film rating: 2/5
Walkouts: 0/5
Pretentious clapping at credits: 0/5
BPM sighting: No
“It is porn, yes, but of the most noble kind.” – Rotterdam Film Festival
The “maestro of pulse-quickening simulated sex” – according to Variety – Jean-Claude Brisseau (Secret Things) continues his cinematic thesis on how women get what they want both in and out of bed.
This film, about a trusting French director who lands in hot water after taping some saucy auditions, also mirrors Brisseau’s real-life court drama when four actresses who missed out on roles in Secret Things accused him of sexual abuse – the case was acquitted.
Exterminating Angels is for audiences who like their eroticism with lashings of intellectual rigour. “It has more in common with the honourable French literary pornographic tradition of Restif de La Bretonne and Marquis de Sade than with contemporary video pornography.” – Rotterdam Film Festival
“Lashings of intellectual rigour”? Please. This fillum was okay but certainly not the intellectually rigorous investigation of sexuality that as promised. The storyline was confused and seemed, at times, to be little more than padding for another steamy scene. The guy sitting next to me certainly seemed to enjoy those parts of the film.
Bleh. Whatever.
Monday 30 July 2007, 9:44 pm #Mikey
Enjoying … how? Or is this camera pans left … ?
Monday 30 July 2007, 10:49 pm #John Surname
Maybe “the honourable French literary pornographic tradition of Restif de La Bretonne and Marquis de Sade” is what LCI needs…
Tuesday 31 July 2007, 7:59 am #The Editor
Camera stays very focused on the action, Mikey. But in a full mainstream cinema the guy sitting next to me was restricted to some heavy breathing and wringing of his water bottle.
Tuesday 31 July 2007, 1:13 pm #Steve
At least you think it was his water bottle…
Tuesday 31 July 2007, 5:00 pm #Jacob
Seen it three times already… more from Jean-Claude I say!!!