Jean-Claude Brisseau
Jean-Claude BRISSEAU (1944-2019, France) taught French before he started making films on an amateur basis. He went on to work for INA (Institut Nationale de l’Audiovisuel), which also produced his debut film. The oeuvre that followed concentrated on themes such as violence, morality, Catholicism, mysticism and the irrational. In France, his films are alternately denounced and applauded. In 2003, Rotterdam honoured him as Film Maker in Focus. The Girl From Nowhere (2012) received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Brisseau passed away at the age of 74, in his hometown Paris, on 11 May 2019.
Filmography
(selection) La croisée des chemins (1975, short), La vie comme ça (1978-1981), Les ombres (1981, TV), L’échangeur (1981, short), Un jeu brutal/A Brutal Game (1983), De bruit et de fureur/The Sound and the Fury (1987), Noce blanche/White Wedding (1989), Lettre de cinéaste (1990, short), Céline (1991), L’ange noir/The Black Angel (1994), Les savates du bon Dieu/Workers for the Good Lord (2000), Choses secrètes (2002), Les anges exterminateurs/The Exterminating Angels (2006), À l’aventure (2008), La fille de nulle part/The Girl from Nowhere (2012), Que le diable nous emporte (2018)
Jean-Claude Brisseau at IFFR
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Les anges exterminateurs
Brisseau is famous and notorious for his respectable porn films. In this film, a filmmaker goes looking for the right actresses for a special film pro
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Script Stage: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Scenario presentation. Brisseau is one of the most controversial French writers and scriptwriters because his intelligence invokes admiration and his
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À l’aventure
A beautiful young woman decides to change course in her life after several philosophical conversations with a taxi driver. She loses her boyfriend, pi
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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 conte
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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 in which t
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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 misery
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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 about
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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 whi
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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 thei