Sadness. The beloved French actor Jean-Claude Brialy died Wednesday. He was most critically a fixture in French New Wave films, having appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's "A Woman is a Woman" and Truffaut's late-period Gothic, "The Bride Wore Black." But he worked with everybody including Jacques Rozier, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda, and Claude Chabrol, as well as directing for films of his own. He'd been ill but kept working up to the end.
