Brigitte Sy
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.
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Known for
Street Flow
TD Professor
Black Spot
Sabine Hennequin
Têtard
La mère de Ben
L'Opéra
Nadia Menour
Quadras
Sylvianne
Nuts
Mme Herschel, la psy
Memoirs of a French Whore
Little Girl Blue
Monique Lange (voice)
Closed Circuit
Michèle Solvy
Online Billie
Brigitte
Le Joueur
Declaration of War
Claudia Benaïm
Cinématon XXVI
N°250
A Place on Earth
Loraine Morin
Casting
Woman of the cast
Regular Lovers
la mère de François
The Invisibles
Béatrice, social services manager
Cinématon
N°250
All That Divides Us
Ben's Mother
A Better Life
La femme bénévole surendettement
Wild Life
Geneviève
Vandal
Christine, la tante
The Last Screening
The taxi driver
Nice
Fanny
Versailles
Madame Herchel
Genealogies of a Crime
Jeanne
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Aline
Déluge
Her mother
Fear(s) of the Dark
(voice)
Emergency Kisses
Jeanne
Melody for a Hustler
Véronique
Choosing Love
Isabelle
Rien dans les poches
Agathe Manikowski
Crack 6T
La principale du collège
The Ministries of Art
Self
La rupture
Josée
Liberty at Night
Micheline
Unexpected Love
Hélène