María Luisa García

Editing

María Luisa García

Born 1956-01-01 · 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.

Acting credits

The Green Ray poster
7.5

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

The Green Ray

1986

Secret Things poster
5.8

Two 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.

Secret Things

2002

Médiumnité poster
4.0

A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.

Médiumnité

1978

The Black Angel poster
5.4

Stephane, 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.

The Black Angel

1994

The Interchange poster
5.3

A 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.

The Interchange

1982

Céline poster
6.9

After 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

The Aviator's Wife poster
7.2

A 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…

The Aviator's Wife

1981

A Brutal Game poster
6.2

A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret and tortured life.

A Brutal Game

1983

Sound and Fury poster
6.6

This 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.

Sound and Fury

1988

The Adventures of Rosette poster
6.4

A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.

The Adventures of Rosette

1983

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette prend sa douche

1984

La Croisée des chemins poster
4.6

The 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

Astrakan poster
5.7

Samuel 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

Des jeunes femmes disparaissent poster
7.0

Second version of a short film Brisseau will remake in 2014.

Des jeunes femmes disparaissent

1976

No artwork available
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Rosette vole les voleurs

1988

No artwork available
NR

Director Jean-Claude Brisseau discusses the making of his film Les anges exterminateurs (2006) in an interview.

Le cinéma selon Brisseau

2007

Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet poster
NR

Jean-Claude Brisseau receives a film crew and some friends at his home to talk about cinema, childhood, time passing by…

Brisseau, 251 rue Marcadet

2018

Life the Way It Is poster
5.9

Agnes 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.

Life the Way It Is

1978

Shadows poster
8.3

The 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.

Shadows

1982

Workers for the Good Lord poster
5.9

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.

Workers for the Good Lord

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau

2008