Person
Xavier Legrand
Directing · Born 1979-03-28 · Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France
Biography
Xavier Legrand (born 28 March 1979; Melun) is a French actor, direcor and screenwriter. Legrand was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film Avant que de tout perdre (Just Before Losing Everything). His first feature Custody was in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival and earned Legrand the Silver Lion for Best Director.
Known for
Mortel
2019
Au Revoir les Enfants
Babinot
Blaise
2016
Custody
Writer
Regular Lovers
2005
Before What Comes After
Editor
The Successor
Director
Free Hands
2010
Escape from Raqqa
Matray
Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russe
self
Filmography
- 2025Before What Comes AfterEditor
- 2023The SuccessorDirector
- 2019Mortel
- 2019Escape from RaqqaMatray
- 2018Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russeself
- 2018CustodyWriter
- 2017The Soviet Revolution Told Through its CinemaSelf
- 2016Blaise
- 2016A Night in MarchThomas
- 2013Just Before Losing EverythingDirector
- 2010Free Hands
- 2010Camus
- 2009La Ligne de fuite
- 2007Point de fuite
- 2007Kaojikara
- 2005Regular Lovers
- 1987Au Revoir les EnfantsBabinot
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