Les Anges exterminateurs (2006)
Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau

Drama
aka: The Exterminating Angels

Film Synopsis

François is an independent film director who is busy preparing his next film, a crime thriller.  As is his custom, he selects his actors through a series of extensive screen tests in which he can gauge their suitability for certain roles.  The one part of his film that most preoccupies him is a nude scene.  When one of his auditioning actresses performs the scene, she achieves such a state of arousal that she gives François far more than he had been expecting.  The actress later confides in the director that the experience of performing this erotic sequence in front of the camera has left her profoundly shaken - she has never known anything like it in her life.  This stimulates François into changing his plans and instead he decides to make a film that explores the taboo subject of female pleasure, merging fiction and reality.  What begins as an exercise in curiosity turns into something far more involving as François and his actors are driven to probe the limits of eroticism with ever diminishing restraint...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Script: Jean-Claude Brisseau
  • Cinematographer: Wilfrid Sempé
  • Music: Jean Musy
  • Cast: Frédéric van den Driessche (François), Maroussia Dubreuil (Charlotte), Lise Bellynck (Julie), Marie Allan (Stéphanie), Sophie Bonnet (La femme de François), Raphaële Godin (Apparition 1), Margaret Zenou (Apparition 2), Jeanne Cellard (La grand-mère), Virginie Legeay (Virginie), Estelle Galarme (Olivia), Marine Danaux (Agnès), Apolline Louis (Céline), François Négret (L'ami de Stéphane), Christophe Maillard (Le producteur), Françoise Bonnet (La voisine escalier), Olivier Perrot (Le gendarme), Jean-Claude Brisseau (Un assistant tournage), María Luisa García (La maquilleuse), Aymeric Petit (Un machino), Georges Prat (L'ingénieur du son)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Aka: The Exterminating Angels

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