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Jean-Claude Brisseau
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Jean-Claude Brisseau (17 July 1944 â 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses SecrĂštes") and his 2006 film The Exterminating Angels ("Les Anges exterminateurs").
His film CĂ©line 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 aâŠ
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Jean-Claude Brisseau (17 July 1944 â 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses SecrĂštes") and his 2006 film The Exterminating Angels ("Les Anges exterminateurs"). His film CĂ©line 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 FĂ©mis in Paris. Brisseau died in Paris on 11 May 2019 at the age of 74. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Claude Brisseau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jean-Claude Brisseau's Filmography
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My Own Way
as Self
Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet
as Self
Tempting Devils
The Girl from Nowhere
as Michel Deviliers
No Poster
Lâange et la femme: le cinĂ©ma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
as Self
No Poster
Le cinéma selon Brisseau
as Self
No Poster
BĂątons d'encens pour Mizoguchi
as Self
The Black Angel
as A guest at the meal (uncredited)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
as 2e Passant
A Brutal Game
as L'Homme sur le Quai de Gare (uncredited)
Shadows
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Médiumnité
as Pierre
La Croisée des chemins
as Father
Death in the Afternoon
The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man
as Young man
On Sunday Afternoon
as (voice)