
Writing
Laetitia Masson
Born
1966-08-18 (60)
Place of birth
Épinal, France
Known for
Writing
Credits
39 titles
Lætitia Masson (born 18 August 1966) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed twelve films since 1991. Her film For Sale was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Known for
3.6No synopsis available yet.
Vivement dimanche
1998
7.2After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
Nouvelle Vague
2025
X Femmes is a French television series of short films shown on Canal+ in 2008–2009. They were shot by female directors with the goal of producing erotica from a female point of view.
X Femmes
2008
4.2It’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 today’s France.
Summer Frost
2023
4.8Pierre 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?
Chevrotine
2022
5.8An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.
Souvenir
1996
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
4.2A 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?
Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
Claire has just been fired. She decides to become an escort girl. Well, to try, anyway. Because her biggest obsession is the client's demands, especially anal sex.
Enculées
2008
1990s · 3 titles
5.8An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.
Souvenir
1996
6.6Martine 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 unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
1993
6.0A 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 dernières heures du millénaire
1990
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.2After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
Nouvelle Vague
2025
4.2It’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 today’s France.
Summer Frost
2023
4.2It’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 today’s France.
Summer Frost
2023
4.8Pierre 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?
Chevrotine
2022
4.8Pierre 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?
Chevrotine
2022
5.9Laetita 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.
Love Me
2000
5.9Laetita 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.
Love Me
2000
5.0A 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.
For Sale
1998
5.0A 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.
For Sale
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'Orchidoclaste
2013
3.2When 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 detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.
Coupable
2008
3.2When 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 detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.
Coupable
2008
5.6A 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 themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
The Repentant
2002
5.6A 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 themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
The Repentant
2002
4.2A 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?
Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
4.2A 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?
Why (Not) Brazil?
2004
No synopsis available yet.
Vertige de l'amour
1994
6.5Alice, a sociology researcher, and Volodymyr, a pianist, are going to have a child! They will call him Ulysses. Except that Ulysses, at one year old, doesn't fit the growth charts. Too small, too thin, and he still isn't walking. The verdict comes down: Ulysses won't be like the others. But how will he be?
Ulysse
2026
6.5Alice, a sociology researcher, and Volodymyr, a pianist, are going to have a child! They will call him Ulysses. Except that Ulysses, at one year old, doesn't fit the growth charts. Too small, too thin, and he still isn't walking. The verdict comes down: Ulysses won't be like the others. But how will he be?
Ulysse
2026
5.3Alice, 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.
To Have (Or Not)
1995
5.3Alice, 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.
To Have (Or Not)
1995
A twenty-year-old girl in the provinces, setting out to discover life, love, work...
Nulle part
1993
A twenty-year-old girl in the provinces, setting out to discover life, love, work...
Nulle part
1993
2.8A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
GHB: To Be or Not to Be
2014
No synopsis available yet.
Les Petits Bateaux
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Les Petits Bateaux
1988
7.5Sylvie 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 weekend.
Petite fille
2011
7.5Sylvie 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 weekend.
Petite fille
2011
Claire has just been fired. She decides to become an escort girl. Well, to try, anyway. Because her biggest obsession is the client's demands, especially anal sex.
Enculées
2008
Claire has just been fired. She decides to become an escort girl. Well, to try, anyway. Because her biggest obsession is the client's demands, especially anal sex.
Enculées
2008


