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 HIVpositive since 1990 contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and Lendroit idéal where the protagonist Barbara played by Ronit Elkabetz is HIVpositive She opposes the feminist MeToo movement BalanceTonPorc in France and signed an antimetoo 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 CCBYSA 30