Laetitia Masson

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffa ...

Summer Frost (2023)

It's summer and France is hit by a polar cold. Ten lone and lost souls find each other, a profound meeting as a last chance to hope and fear, to love and dream. Ten tales as tribute to Monet's Water Lilies, ten tales portraying an impressionist painting of ...

Chevrotine (2022)

Pierre is still mourning his dead wife when he meets Laura, a joyful and sensual woman with whom he will have a new child, little Autumn. But will this passionate and unexpected love be able to resist the demons of the past? ...

GHB: To Be or Not to Be (2014)

A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai. ...

Petite fille (2011)

Sylvie Neige is 35. An only child, she lives and works on her parents' farm. The only entertainment she allows herself is a drama class held in the next village. There she meets Gabriel, a seductive city dweller who invites her to stay with him for a weeke ...

Coupable (2008)

When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was incapable of giving her children, all eyes turn to the widow. Beneath this passionate crime, a modern day ...

Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process? ...

The Repentant (2002)

A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themse ...

Love Me (2000)

Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Taipei. Sandrine Kiberlain, Johnny Hallyday, and Julian Sands are just a few of the many cast members. ...

For Sale (1998)

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective. ...

To Have (Or Not) (1995)

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue. ...

Lou Didn’t Say No (1994)

Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis. ...

Nulle part (1993)

A twenty-year-old girl in the provinces, setting out to discover life, love, work... ...

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago st ...

Les dernières heures du millénaire (1990)

A young woman leaves the man she lives with in the middle of the night. All the next day, she searches for a place to sleep, in vain. ...

Les Petits Bateaux (1988)

The Competition (2017)

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis. Showing us how successful candidates get to follow in the footsteps of such luminaries as Louis Malle, François Ozon and Alain Resnais, all of whom attended this prestigious ...

Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)

A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process? ...

Souvenir (1996)

An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life. ...

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional (1993)

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentional ...

Les dernières heures du millénaire (1990)

A young woman leaves the man she lives with in the middle of the night. All the next day, she searches for a place to sleep, in vain. ...