The Exterminating Angels (2007)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C Film: C
Jean-Claude
Brisseau’s The Exterminating Angels
(2007) thinks it is some kind of psychological, erotic thriller that is
mysterious and meaningful, with some kind of honest sexual content in the way
it shows its sex scenes, but this is really just a softcore sex flick with more
pretentiousness than I have seen in a long time. And being French cannot cover that up. How pretentiousness is it? The lead is a filmmaker determined to study
the sexuality of women!
Does he
succeed? Of course not. He is an idiot! So is the film a turn on of any kind? Barely.
Brisseau even manages to make the sex boring and if that were not
arrogant enough, he wrote it and the title is supposed to reference the great
1962 Luis Bunuel classic The
Exterminating Angel, but it makes no sense and if he denies this is full of
it. How ludicrous can you get?
The 1.33
X 1 image is colorful enough to hold all of the flesh tones properly, but why
this is not widescreen in any form is odd.
If you zoom in with a 16 X 9 HDTV, you’ll discover that the subtitles
are all within that aspect ratio. There
are still detail and depth issues. The
Dolby Digital 5.1 mix really has no surrounds and has no DTS track, despite a
DTS logo on the back of the box. Seems
they sponsored the production. Too bad
they seem to have retained the better soundmaster. Extras include an interview with the director
and deleted scenes with his introduction.
- Nicholas Sheffo
