Renaud Legrand

My Dear Spies (2023)

Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and ...

Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019)

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation. The writer is Jean-Louis Schefer, and this tale encapsulates his life's mission. ...

Porte sans clef (2019)

Correspondences (2016)

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a tes ...

Complet 6 pièces (2012)

"Complet 6 pièces" takes place in Paris in some couture workshops. It is a film made up of sketches, where by six times, working situations slip. ...

The Idiot (2008)

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. ...

Guillaume et les sortilèges (2007)

Contemporary Paris, mid-July. Guillaume arrives in the capital to caretake a large apartment until the end of the summer. Lucie, the apartment's owner, and a friend of his mother's, welcomes him… then suddenly disappears. ...

Octobre (2006)

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment. ...

All the Fine Promises (2003)

Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress who is still alive. Her journey to find this mysterious woman takes her to places and people from her childhood that she thought she'd left behind forever. ...

The Adolescent (2001)

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky's novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature. ...

L'Étonnement (2001)

Li per li (1994)

Five extraterrestrials like no other are enjoying their last moments on planet Earth. Only one will stay to keep the secrets. ...

Deux dames sérieuses (1988)

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield suddenly decide to abandon their suffocating universe. They embark on a trip around the world in search of an impossible sanctity. ...

The Kegelstatt Trio (2022)

Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other. The key of E-flat may be the key of true friendship, but it is Mozart that pushes them apart... ...

Barbara (2017)

An actress will play Barbara, the French singer. The shoot will soon start. The actress works on her character, her voice, the songs, scores, the gestures, knitting, scenes she has to learn, things are going okay, there's progress, development, she is even ...

Saltimbank (2003)

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, ...

Mods (2002)

A college stands in the middle of verdant grounds. One day, Édouard, a student, suddenly falls sick. The college doctor is unable to diagnose the young man's illness. Anna, the college director, calls in Édouard's two brothers, professional soldiers, in ...

Oncle Vania (1997)

Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov's famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two. ...

Deux dames sérieuses (1988)

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield suddenly decide to abandon their suffocating universe. They embark on a trip around the world in search of an impossible sanctity. ...