IMDb RATING
5.4/10
3.4K
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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
- All cast & crew
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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)
Featured review
Kitsch plus Cocteau
French film makers are prone to mixing banal philosophy and soft core porn. Their tiresome philosophies of pleasure are ALWAYS mere justification for voyeurism and mental masturbation for the predominantly male viewers, some of whom evidently hope that their wives and girlfriends will be stimulated too. They can thus escape the horrors of monogamy, if only in their minds. This transparently false justification is the essence of kitsch. On an intellectual level this film is no better than Exit To Eden, which also justified voyeurism and diluted forms of perversion with the same pretentious twaddle. But at least we are spared from seeing men in G strings and Rosie O'Donnell in a black corset and fishnet stockings. The borrowings from Orphee are obvious. Death is a sinister beauty, corrupt police do her work, and coded radio messages appear at random. Even the title borrows from Bunuel. However, little is done with these elements. They are tiny bits of brain candy for the critics, like finding Waldo. We do see some pretty girls, but they are mostly insane. BOTTOM LINE: For men who need a jump start.
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- bcrumpacker
- Jun 12, 2011
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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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