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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...