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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ce samedi 11 mai, les proches de Jean-Claude Brisseau ont annoncé la mort du cinéaste français à l'âge de 74 ans. Le réalisateur de Noce Blanche est décédé des suites d'une longue maladie. La carrière ...

Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975. Screened in Studio 43 in Paris, the film was noticed and admired by Eric Rohmer, who attached the name of his production company Les Films du ...

A trilogy of experimental shorts by French filmmaker, Jean-Claude Brisseau. Utilizing the same cast members each film acts out repeating motifs of morbid meditation, erotic daydreams, and violent ...

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 ...