Brigitte Roüan
French actress, film director and screenwriter
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Brigitte Roüan |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Toulon, France |
| occupation | Actress, screenwriter, director |
| years_active | 1969–present |
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Brigitte Roüan (born 28 September 1946) is a French director, screenwriter and actress.
Life and career
Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris.
Her acting career began at age 21, on the stage. Her performance lead the way to small film roles for directors including Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, and Bertrand Tavernier.
Rouan became a director in her own right when she helmed a short film titled Grosse. It won a César Award in 1986. She would become a feature film director with Overseas (1990), which won the Critics' Week award at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. She co-starred in the film with Marianne Basler and Nicole Garcia to portray sisters in colonial North Africa during the 1950s.
The now actor-director would continue in roles, including one in Olivier, Olivier (1991) for Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
Rouan's 1997 film Post Coitum, Animal Triste garnered attention for its depiction of an affair between a middle-aged woman (played by Rouan herself) and a younger man. The film was a success in its native country and received strong notices in America, where it screened at the New York Film Festival before playing to arthouse crowds. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1998, she was a member of the jury at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.
Theater
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| Year | Title | Author | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | La Sagesse ou la Parabole du festin | Paul Claudel | Victor Garcia |
| 1970-71 | The Boors | Carlo Goldoni | Jean-François Rémi |
| 1971 | L’Escalier de Silas | Geneviève Serreau | Michel Peyrelon |
| 1972 | The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare | Chattie Salaman |
| 1973 | Smoking | Jean-Pierre Bisson | Jean-Pierre Bisson |
| 1973-74 | Sarcelles-sur-Mer | Jean-Pierre Bisson | Jean-Pierre Bisson & Jean-François Prévand |
| Et ils passèrent des menottes aux fleurs | Fernando Arrabal | Fernando Arrabal | |
| 1974 | Madras, la nuit où... | Eduardo Manet | Claude Confortès |
| Drums in the Night | Bertolt Brecht | Robert Gironès | |
| 1975 | Quatorze juillet | Serge Ganzl | Denis Llorca |
| Faust-Salpétrière | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Klaus Michael Grüber | |
| 1976 | Regeneration | Italo Svevo | Bernard Chatellier, Robert Gironès, |
| Ginette Herry & Jean Magnan | |||
| Gl'innamorati | Carlo Goldoni | Caroline Huppert | |
| 1977-78 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Benno Besson |
| 1979 | Le souper d'adieu | Arthur Schnitzler | Nat Lilenstein |
| Un ou deux sourires par jour | Antoine Gallien | Jean-Claude Fall | |
| Le nouveau contrat de mariage | Gérard Poitou-Weber | Gérard Poitou-Weber | |
| 1980 | La Nuit | Régis Santon | Régis Santon |
| 1982 | Kingdom of Earth | Tennessee Williams | Pierre Romans |
| Vingt-deux coups de théâtre | Jacques Weber | Jacques Weber | |
| 1984-85 | Le Pain dur | Paul Claudel | Gildas Bourdet |
| 1985 | Balise de toi | Jean-Pierre Bisson | Jean-Pierre Bisson |
| 1986 | Flirt pour deux | Maurice Hennequin | Jean-Pierre Bisson |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello | Jean-Pierre Vincent | |
| 1988 | Les Empailleurs | Jenny Arasse | Philippe Madral |
| 2012-14 | The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | Frédéric Bélier-Garcia |
| 2017 | À plusieurs | Salomé Lelouch | Jean-Philippe Puymartin |
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Filmography
As actress - Cinema
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| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Out 1 | Miss Blandish | Jacques Rivette & Suzanne Schiffman | |
| 1975 | La messe dorée | Rose | Beni Montresor | |
| Let Joy Reign Supreme | The prostitute | Bertrand Tavernier | ||
| 1976 | Demain les mômes | Suzanne | Jean Pourtalé | |
| 1977 | Paradiso | The sister | Christian Bricout | |
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As actress - Television
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| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Les Boussardel | Anne-Marie Mortier | René Lucot | TV series (1 episode) |
| Le 16 à Kerbriant | Françoise Martoret | Michel Wyn | TV series (9 episodes) | |
| 1973 | Marie Dorval | Gabrielle | Pierre Badel | TV movie |
| 1974 | Le cas Adam et Ève | Ève | Serge Witta | TV movie |
| Ce que savait Morgan | Amy | Luc Béraud | TV movie | |
| Gil Blas de Santillane | The Duchess | Jean-Roger Cadet | TV mini-series | |
| 1975 | Le cardinal de Retz | Madame de Pommereu | Bernard d'Abrigeon | TV movie |
| Plain-chant | The young girl | Nat Lilienstein | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 1977 | L'enlèvement du régent | Duchesse du Maine | Gérard Vergez | TV movie |
| Les héritiers | Véronique Chaumard | Roger Pigaut | TV series (1 episode) | |
| Commissaire Moulin | Joëlle Lévêque | Claude Grinberg | TV series (1 episode) | |
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- Overseas (1990) as Malène
- Les Agneaux (1996)
- Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996)
- Post Coitum, Animal Triste (1997) as Diane Clovier
- Why Not Me? (1999) as Josepha
- Le Temps du Loup (Time of the Wolf) (2003) as Béa
- The Pleasure Is All Mine (2004) as Nicole
- Love Songs (2007) as Julie's Mother
- Spiral (TV series) (2008) as Karine Fontane
- The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
- Demi-soeur (2013)
- Love at First Fight (2014)
- From the Land of the Moon (2016)
- Guy (2018)
Filmmaker
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| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Grosse | Short |
| 1990 | Outremer | |
| 1997 | After Sex | |
| 2001 | Sa mère, la pute | TV movie |
| 2005 | Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... | |
| 2006 | Dix films pour en parler | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2009 | Suite noire | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2013 | Tu honoreras ta mère et ta mère | |
| Stop à la Grèce en slip | Short | |
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Awards and nominations
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References
References
- This article borrows largely from a profile of the artist in ''[[The New York Times]]''. Riding, Alan. "When the Tables Are Turned in Adultery's Secret Rooms", ''The New York Times'', March 8, 1998
- "Festival de Cannes: After Sex". festival-cannes.com.
- "Berlinale: 1998 Juries". berlinale.de.
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