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

Acted Movies

The Invisibles (2019)

Director: Louis-Julien Petit

Writers: Louis-Julien Petit,

Cast: Adolpha van Meerhaeghe, Audrey Lamy, Brigitte Sy, Corinne Masiero, Déborah Lukumuena, Noémie Lvovsky, Pablo Pauly, Quentin Faure, Sarah Suco, Tassadit Mandi,

A Better Life (2011)

Director: Cédric Kahn

Writers: Cédric Kahn,

Cast: Abraham Belaga, Brigitte Sy, François Favrat, Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Nicolas Abraham, Slimane Khettabi,

Declaration of War (2011)

Director: Valérie Donzelli

Writers: Valérie Donzelli,

Cast: Bastien Bouillon, Béatrice de Staël, Brigitte Sy, César Desseix, Elina Löwensohn, Gabriel Elkaïm, Jérémie Elkaïm, Michèle Moretti, Philippe Laudenbach, Valérie Donzelli,