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 ...

I was born in 1944 and when I was a child I went to the movies three or four times per week, with my mother or, more often, alone. My mother was a cleaning woman and we did not have money. I ...

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 ...

preferably alone—to Jean-Claude Brisseau’s Exterminating Angels. Women may often have the upper hand in this red-hot fantasy of distaff diddling, but the middle-aged French auteur—a former ...

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 ...