Every now and again,even France can produce a major turkey. Exterminating Angels is a prime example of this. Exterminating Angels is a pretentious,self indulgent exercise in boring pseudo porn. The plot concerns a film maker, who is casting his next epic,a cinematic study in feminine sexuality. The director interviews some lovely young women to star in his smarmy epic by video taping them while indulging in some graphic & explicit sex scenes. He manages to up the ante by bringing other women into his jaded vision of female sexuality. The sex scenes were actually so boring (as was the rest of this movie),at one point,I had to make use of the men's room (and not for the reasons you may be thinking of,pervert). The central characters were not just annoying,but possessed all the depth of Japanese rice paper. The film tries to be arty by adding some lines of surreal poetry,which only manages to make this "artier than thou" mish mash more of a mess than ever (and besides,Jean Cocteau already made far better use of this idea in his 1948 classic,'Orphee'---a modern day retelling of the Orpheus & Eurydice tale). This is probably the worst French sex farce I've seen since 'Romance',or any piece of dreck from Clair Denis
Review of The Exterminating Angels
