Jean-Claude Brisseau
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"). In 2002 he was arrested on charges of harassment, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. The plaintiffs were three women who had performed sex acts in front of him during their auditions. This was to form the basis of the The Exterminating Angels film. He was formerly a professor at La Femis (Paris). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Claude Brisseau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 17, 1944
Deathday: May 11, 2019
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The Black Angel
1994-11-11
The Black Angel
Overview: Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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The Girl from Nowhere
2013-02-06
The Girl from Nowhere
Overview: Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-06
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Shadows
1982-04-02
Shadows
Overview: The life of an ordinary working class family in Bagnolet's block of council flats, Paris' suburb. "I've spent 17 years here. I sacrificed myself for you. Now it's over. " says the mother, who dreams of being a singer. Between a pre-teen rocker brother and a disillusioned father, daughter Nathalie brings balance into this breaking-down family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Le cinéma selon Brisseau
2007-03-20
Le cinéma selon Brisseau
Overview: Director Jean-Claude Brisseau discusses the making of his film Les anges exterminateurs (2006) in an interview.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-20
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Tempting Devils
2018-01-10
Tempting Devils
Overview: A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-10
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
1987-02-04
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Overview: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
2008-10-01
L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-01
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Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet
2018-06-16
Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet
Overview: Jean-Claude Brisseau receives a film crew and some friends at his home to talk about cinema, childhood, time passing by…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-16
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Médiumnité
1978-10-30
Médiumnité
Overview: A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man
1968-01-01
The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man
Overview: Paris, Latin Quarter, May 1968. Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, on his bed, a young man indulges in daydreams that invade the whole space.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Death in the Afternoon
1968-01-02
Death in the Afternoon
Overview: A man stabbed to death is haunted by his memories and fantasies while dying alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-02
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On Sunday Afternoon
1967-01-01
On Sunday Afternoon
Overview: A voice, warm and heartbreaking, that of Brisseau himself, coils over black and white images. The tone was set very quickly: "To wake up is to be born again in the world of despair." 'On Sunday afternoon' is a film all at once clinical and theoretical on melancholy in the strong sense of the famous "black bile" of the Greeks whose author seems to want to make a complete turn, from his tragic dimension to his psychological dimension, even ending his film with a long quote from Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia'.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Brutal Game
1983-09-28
A Brutal Game
Overview: A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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La Croisée des chemins
1976-06-22
La Croisée des chemins
Overview: The peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality.La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975. Screened in Studio 43 in Paris, the film was noticed and admired by Eric Rohmer, who attached the name of his production company Les Films du Losange to several films by Brisseau: Un jeu brutal, De bruit et de fureur en Noce blanche.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-22
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