Jean-Claude Brisseau
Still: CélineJean-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
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.
95'
France
IFFR 1989
Les savates du bon Dieu
107'
France
IFFR 2001
L'ange noir
107'
France
IFFR 2003
Choses secrètes
115'
France
IFFR 2003
La croisée des chemins
80'
France
IFFR 2003
Céline
90'
France
IFFR 2003
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.
95'
France
IFFR 2003
Un jeu brutal
89'
France
IFFR 2003
Noce blanche
89'
France
IFFR 2003
Les savates du bon Dieu
107'
France
IFFR 2003
La vie comme ça
96'
France
IFFR 2003
Les anges exterminateurs
100'
France
IFFR 2007
Script Stage: Jean-Claude Brisseau
90'
IFFR 2007
À l'aventure
102'
France
IFFR 2009
La fille de nulle part
91'
France
IFFR 2013