Brigitte Sy

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Brigitte Sy (2015)

Brigitte Sy (born January 26, 1956 in Paris ) is a French actress, director and screenwriter. Her first film as a director, Les Mains libres, was shown at the 2011 Berlinale . She often starred in the films of her ex-partner Philippe Garrel and is the mother of Louis and Esther Garrel .

Live and act

Sy was interested in the theater from a young age. She graduated in acting in France and deepened her studies in Montreal and New York . Back in France, she made her film debut in The Dropout by Daniel Duval in 1979 . At the same time she took part in plays. From the mid-1980s she was often seen in Philippe Garrel's films, some of which she was also involved in as "Script Girl" and co-screenwriter. She has two children with Garrel who are both actors. Sy starred in many other films and later taught as an acting teacher.

Sy only switched to the other side of the camera late: Her first film as a director was made in 2008. She filmed her own experiences in the short film L'Endroit idéal : Sy had given workshops in prisons for ten years and had a relationship with one of the inmates involved during a film project began. These experiences were later incorporated into the feature- length film Les mains libres .

Sy became infected with the HIV virus from the prisoner with whom she was in love . Her illness was the theme of Sy in 2009 in the short film Seafood , which was broadcast by Arte on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Act Up Paris initiative . The main characters from L'Endroit idéal and Les mains libres , who are strongly autobiographical, are also HIV-positive.

In 2018, Sy was one of the 100 signatories of an open letter in Le Monde that dealt critically with the #Metoo movement . Together with fellow campaigners such as Brigitte Bardot , Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Millet , she campaigned “for the freedom to be intrusive” and against a “totalitarian climate” regarding sexuality.

Filmography

As an actress (selection)

  • 1979: The Dropout (La dérobade) - Director: Daniel Duval
  • 1984: Liberty, the Night (Liberté, la nuit) - Director: Philippe Garrel
  • 1984: Triads of the Kiss (Les baisers de secours) - Director: Philippe Garrel
  • 1991: I don't hear the guitar anymore (J'entends plus la guitare) - Director: Philippe Garrel
  • 1991: Magic of Venus (Meeting Venus) - Director: István Szabó
  • 1997: Genealogies of a crime (Généalogies d'un crime) - Director: Raoul Ruiz
  • 1991: Burning Asphalt (Ma 6-T va crack-er) - Director: Jean-François Richet
  • 2005: Troublemakers (Les amants réguliers) - Director: Louis Garrel
  • 2008: Versailles - Director: Pierre Schoeller
  • 2014: Vie sauvage - Director: Cedric Kahn
  • 2017: Tout nous sépare - Director: Thierry Klifa
  • 2017: The Great Pretender - Director: Nathan Silver
  • 2018: The Shine of the Invisible (Les invisibles) - Director: Louis-Julien Petit
  • 2017–2019: Black Spot (Zone Blanche) - TV series

As a director / screenwriter

  • 2008: L'Endroit idéal (short film; director and screenplay)
  • 2009: Fruits de Mer (short documentary for TV; director and screenplay)
  • 2010: Les Mains Libres (feature film; direction and screenplay)
  • 2015: L'Astragale (feature film; director and screenplay)
  • 2015: La Promenade du diable (short film; director and screenplay)
  • 2016: Les Ogres (feature film; screenplay)

Awards and nominations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Sy. In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Les Mains Libres. In: arsenal-berlin.de. Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, accessed on January 13, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: Crazy normal. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  4. ^ Sy Brigitte - Realisatrice, scénariste et actrice française. In: Ciné-Phil-Azr. Retrieved January 19, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ Thierry Lebas: L'Endroit Ideal de Brigitte Sy. In: formatcourt.com. March 12, 2009, accessed January 18, 2020 (French).
  6. ^ Critique - Les Mains libres de Brigitte Sy. In: ladepeche.fr. June 16, 2010, accessed January 18, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ Tania Martini: "I wanted to be truthful". In: taz.de. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, February 16, 2011, accessed on January 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Des femmes film le sida. In: lesinrocks.com. Les Editions Indépendantes, December 1, 2009, accessed January 19, 2020 (French).
  9. ↑ Katia Bayer: Arte. Culture court. In: www.formatcourt.com. August 26, 2010, accessed on January 19, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  10. ^ "Les Mains libres": derrière les murs de la prison, Brigitte Sy filme les émotions. In: Le Monde. June 15, 2010, accessed on January 19, 2020 (French).
  11. ↑ Martina Meister: "We demand the freedom to be intrusive". In: welt.de. Axel Springer SE, March 1, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Les Ogres. In: Site du Festival de Films de Femmes de Créteil. Retrieved January 19, 2020 (French).

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