Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy

  • Birthday: 1956-01-26
  • Place of birth: Paris, France

Biography

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.

Filmography

Emergency Kisses

1989

As Jeanne

Cinématon XXVI

1982

As N°250

Online Billie

2019

As Brigitte

Nice

2009

As Fanny

Last Screening

2011

As The taxi driver

Déluge

2006

As Her mother

Declaration of War

2011

As Claudia Benaïm

Vandal

2013

As Christine, la tante

Liberty at Night

1984

As Micheline

Unexpected Love

2015

As Hélène

Crack 6T

1997

As La principale du collège

La rupture

2020

As Josée

Versailles

2008

As Madame Herchel

A Better Life

2011

As La femme bénévole surendettement

Nuts

2013

As Mme Herschel, la psy

Closed Circuit

2013

As Michèle Solvy

All That Divides Us

2017

As Ben's Mother

The Invisibles

2019

As Béatrice, social services manager

Little Girl Blue

2023

As Monique Lange (voice)

Melody for a Hustler

1998

As Véronique

A Place On Earth

2013

As Loraine Morin

Choosing Love

2008

As Isabelle

Wild Life

2014

As Geneviève

Genealogies of a Crime

1997

As Jeanne

Rien dans les poches

2008

As Agathe Manikowski

Fear(s) of the Dark

2007

As (voice)

Regular Lovers

2005

As la mère de François

Street Flow

2019

As Professeur TD

Cinématon

1978

As N°250

Production

Free Hands

2010

As Director

Astragal

2015

As Director

Ogres

2016

As Writer

Astragal

2015

As Writer

Free Hands

2010

As Scenario Writer

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