Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy

Born: January 26, 1956
in Paris, France
Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France.

She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women.

She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.

Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Little Girl Blue
Title: Little Girl Blue
Character: Monique Lange (voice)
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: Movie
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
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Title: L'Opéra
Character: Nadia Menour
Released: September 7, 2021
Type: TV
Set in the shrine of French dance, the Garnier Opera house, L'Opera follows three characters whose dreams clash with reality, whose ambitions collide with expectations, and whose purity faces corruption.
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La rupture
Title: La rupture
Character: Josée
Released: April 22, 2020
Type: Movie
The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges willy-nilly, until fate puts them face to face with one another. In one version of the film, the main couple is made up of a man and a woman, in the other version, two women.
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Online Billie
Title: Online Billie
Character: Brigitte
Released: October 14, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of a wannabe actor who falls in love with a camgirl.
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Street Flow
Title: Street Flow
Character: Professeur TD
Released: October 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
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Title: Têtard
Character: La mère de Ben
Released: October 6, 2019
Type: TV
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The Invisibles
Title: The Invisibles
Character: Béatrice, social services manager
Released: January 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
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All That Divides Us
Title: All That Divides Us
Character: Ben's Mother
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
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Title: Quadras
Character: Sylvianne
Released: September 19, 2017
Type: TV
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Title: Black Spot
Character: Sabine Hennequin
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: TV
In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper into secrets of the area.
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Unexpected Love
Title: Unexpected Love
Character: Hélène
Released: October 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dorwa, 57, faces early retirement when she falls head-over-heels in love with 35-year-old Pascal, throwing her life and everyone around her into turmoil.
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Wild Life
Title: Wild Life
Character: Geneviève
Released: October 29, 2014
Type: Movie
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in the shadow, hunted by the police but always free and on the move.
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Closed Circuit
Title: Closed Circuit
Character: Michèle Solvy
Released: October 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Hired to oversee the security of a superstore, Pierre soon discovers a dark secret and becomes a threat to the system he helped create.
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Vandal
Title: Vandal
Character: Christine, la tante
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
15-year-old Chérif feels like a million bucks behind the wheel of a stolen car. Placed under the guardianship of his Aunt and Uncle, he has to return to his apprenticeship as a mason. It's his last chance. But every night graffiti artists descend upon the city's walls. And with this, a whole new world opens up before him...
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A Place On Earth
Title: A Place On Earth
Character: Loraine Morin
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.
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Nuts
Title: Nuts
Character: Mme Herschel, la psy
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.
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A Better Life
Title: A Better Life
Character: La femme bénévole surendettement
Released: November 18, 2011
Type: Movie
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
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Declaration of War
Title: Declaration of War
Character: Claudia Benaïm
Released: August 31, 2011
Type: Movie
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.
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Last Screening
Title: Last Screening
Character: The taxi driver
Released: August 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Sylvain, a young man, devotes his life to small, local movie theater destined to be shut down. He lives in the theater's basement and is the theater programer, projectionist, and ticket seller. Each night, after the last screening, he leaves the building to carry out a ritual killing.
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Nice
Title: Nice
Character: Fanny
Released: May 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.
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Rien dans les poches
Title: Rien dans les poches
Character: Agathe Manikowski
Released: December 14, 2008
Type: Movie
25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
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Versailles
Title: Versailles
Character: Madame Herchel
Released: May 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A young mother Nina and her son Enzo find themselves sleeping on the streets of Paris. Eventually there lifestyle leads them to Versailles.
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Choosing Love
Title: Choosing Love
Character: Isabelle
Released: January 23, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.
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Fear(s) of the Dark
Title: Fear(s) of the Dark
Character: (voice)
Released: October 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
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Déluge
Title: Déluge
Character: Her mother
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
I am there. I say nothing. In the lounge, the boxes still opened from our moving in. My father. My mother. Come to comfort me. Her father. Her mother. Incapable to say the words. To put into words what has happened. And outside, the rain. Diluvian. Improbable.
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Regular Lovers
Title: Regular Lovers
Character: la mère de François
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
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Melody for a Hustler
Title: Melody for a Hustler
Character: Véronique
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
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Crack 6T
Title: Crack 6T
Character: La principale du collège
Released: July 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this volatile drama seems to call for violence to rectify social injustices. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who basically terrorize their neighborhoods with their anarchic behavior. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The loosely structured tale reaches its climax at a concert where the two rival groups collide.
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Genealogies of a Crime
Title: Genealogies of a Crime
Character: Jeanne
Released: May 4, 1997
Type: Movie
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
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I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Title: I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Character: Aline
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
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Emergency Kisses
Title: Emergency Kisses
Character: Jeanne
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
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The Ministries of Art
Title: The Ministries of Art
Character: Self
Released: February 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
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Liberty at Night
Title: Liberty at Night
Character: Micheline
Released: October 3, 1984
Type: Movie
In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
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Cinématon XXVI
Title: Cinématon XXVI
Character: N°250
Released: November 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°250
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Sang craché des lèvres belles
Title: Sang craché des lèvres belles
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie