María Luisa García
Editing · b. 1956 · Spain
María Luisa García (1956) was born in Spain, but lives and works in France. Editor and actress, she worked with Eric Rohmer and was Jean-Claude Brisseau's main collaborator, acting in several areas of his films.
Movies18
Movie7.5DramaRomanceA lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Movie5.8DramaTwo young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.
Movie4.0A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.
Médiumnité
1978 · 1 votes
Movie6.9DramaAfter the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of a nurse, Genevieve, who has struggled with depression. Under her personal care, Céline gradually recovers, and the two women grow close.
Céline
1992 · 38 votes
Movie5.4DramaThrillerStephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
Movie7.2DramaComedyA student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Movie6.6DramaThis drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.
Movie5.7DramaSamuel is a wild-looking twelve-year-old orphan who has been placed with a nanny, Marie, for several weeks. Marie, who is struggling between her feelings and her need for money, is married to Clément with whom she has two sons, Alexis and Dimitri. Very quickly Samuel will have to get to know this new family and their possible secrets.
Astrakan
2022 · 12 votes
Movie5.3DramaA young boy moves with his mother into rent-controlled housing in a new banlieue. He begins sixth grade and meets a mysterious classmate. Produced for the "Contes pour enfants" television series that aired on former network Antenna-2.
Movie6.2DramaA strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.
Movie5.9DramaComedyAgnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague.
Movie6.4ComedyA series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
Movie5.9DramaComedyAfter his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.
- Movie6.7Comedy
Rosette prend sa douche
1984 · 3 votes
Movie4.6DramaThe peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality.La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975. Screened in Studio 43 in Paris, the film was noticed and admired by Eric Rohmer, who attached the name of his production company Les Films du Losange to several films by Brisseau: Un jeu brutal, De bruit et de fureur en Noce blanche.
La Croisée des chemins
1976 · 5 votes
- Movie4.3
Rosette vole les voleurs
1988 · 3 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Director Jean-Claude Brisseau discusses the making of his film Les anges exterminateurs (2006) in an interview.
Movie8.3DramaTV MovieThe life of an ordinary working class family in Bagnolet's block of council flats, Paris' suburb. "I've spent 17 years here. I sacrificed myself for you. Now it's over. " says the mother, who dreams of being a singer. Between a pre-teen rocker brother and a disillusioned father, daughter Nathalie brings balance into this breaking-down family.