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Jean-Claude Brisseau

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born July 17, 1944Died May 11, 2019 (74 years)
Jean-Claude Brisseau (17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film The Exterminating Angels ("Les Anges exterminateurs").

His film Céline was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.

At the Cannes Film Festival, 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.

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Known For

  • Secret Things
  • The Exterminating Angels
  • White Wedding
  • À l'aventure
  • Sound and Fury
  • The Girl from Nowhere
  • Céline
  • Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
  • A Brutal Game
  • L'ange noir
  • Tempting Devils
  • The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man
  • Télévision de chambre

Filmography

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