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 ...

Maestro of pulse-quickening simulated sex Jean-Claude Brisseau offers a frequently funny, authentically arousing and seemingly autobiographical tale in "Exterminating Angels.' If exiting viewers could ...

Jean-Claude Brisseau either makes the smuttiest art films in contemporary world cinema, or the artiest smut films. Just like his 2002 creep-out Secret Things—which recorded the constantly shifting ...

Combining intense eroticism with satirical fantasy, this self-reflective effort by French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau (“Secret Things”) was inspired by the legal troubles the filmmaker experienced ...