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. '' Cahier ...

'' ("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

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Award at the

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. At the

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, 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

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, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. Brisseau made a semi-autobiographical film in 2006 about this incident, ''

Les Anges Exterminateurs ''The Exterminating Angels'' (french: Les Anges exterminateurs) is a 2006 French Erotic film, erotic Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Fi ...

''. He was formerly a professor at

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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 rchive *''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 ''Noce Blanche'' ( en, White Wedding, italic=yes) is a 1989 French romantic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It stars Vanessa Paradis, Bruno Cremer and Ludmila Mikaël, with François Négret, Jean Dasté and Véroniqu ...

'' (''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) *'' L'Ange Noir'' (''The Black Angel'') (1994) *''

Les Savates du bon Dieu ''Workers for the Good Lord'' (french: Les Savates du bon Dieu) is a 2000 French crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Stanislas Merhar, Raphaële Godin, Emil Abossolo-Mbo, Paulette Dubost and Coralie Re ...

'' (''Workers for the Good Lord'') (2000) *''

Choses Secrètes ''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. '' Cahier ...

'' (''Secret Things'') (2002) *''

'' (''Exterminating Angels'') (2006) *''

À l'aventure ''À l'aventure'' is a 2008 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film showed at the 2009 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Plot Sandrine, a young and childless woman, meets a friend for a sandwich lu ...

'' (2008) *''

La fille de nulle part ''The Girl from Nowhere'' (french: La Fille de nulle part) is a 2012 French fantasy drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. The film had its world premiere on 8 August 2012 at the 65th Locarno Festival, where it won the Golden L ...

'' (''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

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Foco - Revista de Cinema, special edition devoted to Jean-Claude Brisseau
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