Jean-Claude Brisseau focus
Overview of films
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Choses secrètes
The culmination of Jean-Claude Brisseau’s long exploration of the relationship between power and sexuality. A fable of our capitalist times i
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De bruit et de fureur
Bruno (13) has to hold his own in a poor suburb of Paris. Flamboyant film mixes realism, dream and lyricism.
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La vie comme ça
The beautiful Agnès Tessier defies the world in which hard violence rules the roost. A tender and violent look at feminism, trade unions, urban mis
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Céline
Mystical and miraculous story about the bond between two women that is so strong that supernatural things happen. A moving, but also tragic film ab
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La croisée des chemins
Striking début by Brisseau about the roamings of a group of boys and girls in Paris. Two girls exchange the capital for the countryside. A film in
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Noce blanche
François (Bruno Cremer) teaches philosophy at high school; Mathilde (Vanessa Paradis) is his pupil. This lyrical and heart-rending melodrama maps t
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Un jeu brutal
Daring sketch about a rebellious kid growing up. With rigorous mise-en-scène, Brisseau made a film with a worrying and confusing atmosphere, in whi
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L’ange noir
Stéphane kills a notorious gangster, well known to the police. The quest for the crime leads to a crucial, cruel and dramatic intensity. With Miche
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Les savates du bon Dieu
A contemporary picaresque novel on a high level, in which questions of morality and society, desire and crime fight for supremacy. What use is a co