Jean-Claude Brisseau

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Jean-Claude Brisseau (born July 17, 1944 in Paris ; † May 11, 2019 ibid) was a French filmmaker who often implemented sexual obsessions in his films.

Life

Originally a French teacher in the banlieue , he began making small films as an autodidact. He was discovered and promoted by Éric Rohmer . Although he initially incorporated his social experiences, he did not want to be a realist or a social critic.

In 1988 Brisseau received a sponsorship award for noise and anger in Cannes ; In 1992, Celine was nominated for the Golden Bear in Berlin .

Regardless of whether it was calculated provocation or rather an obsession set in the picture , his tendency to meet pornographic requirements in individual scenes brought him into a borderline situation with Heimliche Spiele . The probably drastic casting was assessed by the French judiciary as sexual harassment and punished with a suspended sentence. The film itself was named best film of the year by the prestigious Cahiers du cinéma . The success led to three more films, Devilish Angels - Secret Games 2 (2006), Fallen Angels - Secret Games 3 (2009) and Devilish Temptation - Secret Games 4 (2018). A new investigation in 2006 with the same allegation as in 2002 was without consequences for him. In the second part of the series, he processed the experiences from the castings from his point of view.

In 2012 he received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for La Fille de nulle part . The film focuses on a widowed and retired math professor, played by Brisseau himself, who takes in a young homeless woman ( Virginie Legeay ).

Brisseau died in Paris in May 2019 at the age of 74.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978: Life as it is (La vie comme ça) - written and directed
  • 1983: Cruel game (Un jeu brutal) - written and directed
  • 1988: Lärm und Wut (De bruit et de fureur) - written and directed
  • 1989: White wedding (Noce blanche) - written and directed
  • 1992: Céline - script and direction
  • 1994: A Black Angel (L'ange noir) - written and directed
  • 2000: The poor people and the good God (Les savates du bon Dieu) - script and direction
  • 2002: Heimliche Spiele (Choses secrètes) - written and directed
  • 2006: Teuflische Engel - Heimliche Spiele 2 (Les Anges exterminateurs) - written and directed
  • 2008: Fallen Angels - Heimliche Spiele 3 (A l'aventure) - Written and directed
  • 2012: The Girl from Nowhere (La Fille de nulle part) - writer, director, actor
  • 2018: Devilish Temptation - Heimliche Spiele 4 (Que le diable nous emporte) - Script and direction

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ French film director Jean-Claude Brisseau is dead . Salzburger Nachrichten of May 11, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Director Jean-Claude Brisseau died , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on May 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Pardo d'oro: “La Fille de nulle part” at pardolive.ch, August 11, 2012 (accessed on August 12, 2012).
  4. ↑ German film description at pardolive.ch (accessed on August 12, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Brisseau, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2019
Place of death Paris , France