In which country was "Exterminating Angels" banned?

“In which country was Exterminating Angels banned?” The answer is Singapore. The 2006 film, originally titled Les Anges exterminateurs, is a French erotic drama written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. Its story follows a filmmaker casting actresses for a project about female sexuality, blurring the line between artistic research and personal exploitation.

The film attracted controversy because of its explicit sexual material and because its fictional premise echoed allegations about Brisseau’s own audition practices. In France, it received an adults-only restriction for viewers under 16 rather than a total national ban.

Singapore’s censorship authorities took the stronger step of prohibiting the film’s release there. This is easy to confuse with ordinary age classification: a film restricted to adults is still legally available to some viewers, while a ban prevents public distribution. The title is also sometimes confused with Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist classic The Exterminating Angel, which is a completely different film.