Name
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1944-07-17
Deathday
2019-05-11 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
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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- 1994 The Black Angel as A guest at the meal (uncredited)
- 2013 The Girl from Nowhere as Michel Deviliers
- 1982 Shadows as Neighbor (uncredited)
- 2007 Le cinéma selon Brisseau as Self
- 2018 Tempting Devils
- 1987 Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle as 2e Passant
- 2008 L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau as Self
- 2018 Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet as Self
- 1978 Médiumnité as Pierre
- 1968 The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man as Young man
- 1968 Death in the Afternoon
- 1967 On Sunday Afternoon as (voice)
- 1983 A Brutal Game as L'Homme sur le Quai de Gare (uncredited)
- 1976 La Croisée des chemins as Father
- 2004 Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi as Self
- 2026 My Own Way as Self
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2006 On n'est pas couché ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
