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Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy

French actress and filmmaker (born 1956)


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.[1][2][3]

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Life and career

She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel.[4] 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.[5] She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive.[6] Along with 99 other French women writers, performers and academics, she signed an open letter that argued the #Me Too movement had gone too far, turning into a "witch hunt", and denounced it as a form of puritanism, resulting in a backlash.[7][8][9]

She is of Sephardic Jewish descent.[10][11]

Filmography

As actress

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As filmmaker

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Awards and nominations

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References

  1. Les Mains libres de Brigitte Sy Evene. Retrieved on 29 June. French
  2. La femme et le prisonnier Le Figaro. 16 June 2010. French
  3. Brigitte Sy – Actrice française Evene. Retrieved on 21 July 2010. French
  4. "Catherine Deneuve and 100 French women denounce #MeToo 'puritanism'". DW.COM. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. "Catherine Deneuve's claim of #MeToo witch-hunt sparks backlash". The Guardian. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. "Petit Tailleur, le coup de foudre filmé par Louis Garrel". Les Inrocks (in French). 6 October 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  7. "Transmissions avec Louis et Philippe Garrel". www.franceinter.fr (in French). 25 December 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2020.



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