Jean-Claude Brisseau (; 17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film ''
Secret Things
''Secret Things'' (french: Choses secrètes) is a 2002 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Coralie Revel and Sabrina Seyvecou. The film is sometimes associated with the New French Extremity. ''Cahiers d ...
'' ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film ''
The Exterminating Angels'' ("Les Anges exterminateurs").
His film ''
Céline
Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly". '' was nominated for the
Golden Bear Award at the
42nd Berlin International Film Festival
The 42nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1992. The festival opened with '' The Inner Circle'' by Andrei Konchalovsky. The Golden Bear was awarded to American film ''Grand Canyon'' directed by Lawrence Ka ...
.
At the
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films ...
, he was awarded the France Culture Award in 2003 for ''Secret Things''; in 1988 he was awarded the Special Award for the Youth.
In 2002, Brisseau was arrested on charges of sexual harassment after three women came forward accusing him of cajoling them into performing sexual acts on camera by promising them a film role. He was eventually found
guilty, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. Brisseau made a semi-autobiographical film in 2006 about this incident, ''
Les Anges Exterminateurs''.
He was formerly a professor at
La Fémis in Paris.
Brisseau died in Paris on 11 May 2019 at the age of 74.
Filmography
*''Dimanche après-midi'' (1967)
*''Des jeunes femmes disparaissent'' (1973) (Short film black and white)
*''La Croisée des chemins'' (1975)
*''Médiumnité'' (''Mediumship'') (1978) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ezDPMg_28
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*''La vie comme ça'' (''Life The Way It Is'') (1978)
*''Un jeu brutal'' (''A Brutal Game'') (1983)
*''De bruit et de fureur'' (''Sound and Fury'') (1988)
*''
Noce blanche'' (''White Wedding'') (1989)
*''
Céline
Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly". '' (1992)
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L'Ange Noir'' (''The Black Angel'') (1994)
*''
Les Savates du bon Dieu'' (''Workers for the Good Lord'') (2000)
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Choses Secrètes'' (''Secret Things'') (2002)
*''
Les Anges Exterminateurs'' (''Exterminating Angels'') (2006)
*''
À l'aventure'' (2008)
*''
La fille de nulle part'' (''The Girl from Nowhere'') (2012)
*''Des jeunes femmes disparaissent'' (2014) (Short film. Remake of the first in 1973)
*''
Que le diable nous emporte (2018)
References
External links
*
Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Jean-Claude Brisseau
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1944 births
2019 deaths
Film directors from Paris
French people convicted of sexual assault