Sophie Letourneur

Directing

Sophie Letourneur

Born

1978-01-01 (48)

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Screenwriter and filmmaker Sophie LETOURNEUR (1978, France) studied at Duperré School of Applied Arts and then at the ÉnsAD (French National School of Decorative Arts), majoring in Film. Her feature debut, La vie au Ranch (2009), was enthusiastically embraced in France, winning both the French Film Award and the Audience Award at Belfort Film Festival. Although she experiments in different forms of film, Letourneur often playfully trains the camera on the everyday lives of young women.

Known for

A Private Life poster
5.5

When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting an odd assortment of quirky characters.

A Private Life

2025

Le Cercle poster
NR

As long as there is cinema, LE CERCLE will be there. It is the only television program of critical debates 100% devoted to cinema. Each week, it offers fiery, joyful and non-condescending jousts on the films on the bill; and invites with "Le questionnaire du CERCLE" directors to come and share their passion for cinema.

Le Cercle

2005

Sorry Angel poster
6.9

At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.

Sorry Angel

2018

Follies poster
6.3

After 16 years together, François and Julie open their relationship to explore sexual adventures and self-discovery. With two kids and their bond at stake, the path proves more complex than expected.

Follies

2026

Enormous poster
5.0

It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.

Enormous

2020

L'Aventura poster
5.7

Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., decides to tell the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn't bother her...

L'Aventura

2025

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2010s · 5 titles

Sorry Angel poster
6.9

At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.

Sorry Angel

2018

No artwork available
NR

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.

Cinéast(e)s

2013

Schengen poster
NR

In one Paris divided militarily into two like was the former Berlin Est-Ouest, Ines Raymond receives from the right bank people who ask for a visa for the left bank. Each have their reasons and dreams for crossing the Seine, but, Ines must follow the new instructions.

Schengen

2012

Les Coquillettes poster
4.5

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

Les Coquillettes

2013

The Shady Sailor poster
5.9

Laetitia and Sophie go to Quimper, town where Laetitia used to live, to pass the weekend. Sophie is having problems with her husband, while Laetitia tells her about one of her youth's boyfriends, the "masked sailor" she used to love while she lived in Quimper.

The Shady Sailor

2011

Series credits

Behind the camera

Enormous poster
5.0

It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.

Enormous

2020

Enormous poster
5.0

It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.

Enormous

2020

L'Aventura poster
5.7

Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., decides to tell the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn't bother her...

L'Aventura

2025

L'Aventura poster
5.7

Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., decides to tell the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn't bother her...

L'Aventura

2025

L'Aventura poster
5.7

Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., decides to tell the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn't bother her...

L'Aventura

2025

Manue Bolonaise poster
9.0

Eleven-year-old Manue and Sophie are best friends. Be it one or the other, their main topic of conversation concerns going out with boys. Manue, her time taken up with a succession of passing fancies, progressively neglects Sophie, who really doesn’t try to grow up. Their shared secrets become shameful and their bond childish. Sophie is betrayed, an incomprehending victim; in some ways, this is her first deception in love.

Manue Bolonaise

2005

Manue Bolonaise poster
9.0

Eleven-year-old Manue and Sophie are best friends. Be it one or the other, their main topic of conversation concerns going out with boys. Manue, her time taken up with a succession of passing fancies, progressively neglects Sophie, who really doesn’t try to grow up. Their shared secrets become shameful and their bond childish. Sophie is betrayed, an incomprehending victim; in some ways, this is her first deception in love.

Manue Bolonaise

2005

La tête dans le vide poster
7.5

Oh, Jesus Christ, what should Guillemette do ? Break up with Grégory, her companion, soon to return from Seville ? Or save her couple ? She really doesn't know ! What on earth to do !!!??? And she talks and she talks - not always very consistently -to her two friends who try to help...desperately !

La tête dans le vide

2004

La tête dans le vide poster
7.5

Oh, Jesus Christ, what should Guillemette do ? Break up with Grégory, her companion, soon to return from Seville ? Or save her couple ? She really doesn't know ! What on earth to do !!!??? And she talks and she talks - not always very consistently -to her two friends who try to help...desperately !

La tête dans le vide

2004

Chicks poster
5.0

Pam is twenty. She and her girlfriends hang out together on the couch at The Ranch, the apartment she shares with Manon. Sitting around chatting, drinking, smoking, and dancing are part of life at their age, but there comes a time when you need to cut loose from the group and go your own way...

Chicks

2010

Chicks poster
5.0

Pam is twenty. She and her girlfriends hang out together on the couch at The Ranch, the apartment she shares with Manon. Sitting around chatting, drinking, smoking, and dancing are part of life at their age, but there comes a time when you need to cut loose from the group and go your own way...

Chicks

2010

Gaby Baby Doll poster
5.5

Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Nicolas, an expert in loneliness, for help.

Gaby Baby Doll

2014

Gaby Baby Doll poster
5.5

Gaby mustn’t be left alone at night. Yet that’s exactly what her boyfriend Vincent does, to test her love for him. She struggles against her natural instincts and quickly exhausts the patience of the local guys. But Gaby decides to turn to castle warden Nicolas, an expert in loneliness, for help.

Gaby Baby Doll

2014

Voyages en Italie poster
4.9

A French couple burnt out by the routine of their daily family life decides after much hesitation to travel to Sicily for a short holiday.

Voyages en Italie

2023

Voyages en Italie poster
4.9

A French couple burnt out by the routine of their daily family life decides after much hesitation to travel to Sicily for a short holiday.

Voyages en Italie

2023

Les Coquillettes poster
4.5

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

Les Coquillettes

2013

Les Coquillettes poster
4.5

Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.

Les Coquillettes

2013

No artwork available
NR

Final film of the trilogy that began with Voyages en Italie. Plot TBA.

Divorce à l'italienne

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No artwork available
NR

Final film of the trilogy that began with Voyages en Italie. Plot TBA.

Divorce à l'italienne

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No artwork available
NR

The adventures of a group of seven girls who decide to take a self-defense class.

Badass

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No artwork available
NR

The adventures of a group of seven girls who decide to take a self-defense class.

Badass

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The Shady Sailor poster
5.9

Laetitia and Sophie go to Quimper, town where Laetitia used to live, to pass the weekend. Sophie is having problems with her husband, while Laetitia tells her about one of her youth's boyfriends, the "masked sailor" she used to love while she lived in Quimper.

The Shady Sailor

2011

The Shady Sailor poster
5.9

Laetitia and Sophie go to Quimper, town where Laetitia used to live, to pass the weekend. Sophie is having problems with her husband, while Laetitia tells her about one of her youth's boyfriends, the "masked sailor" she used to love while she lived in Quimper.

The Shady Sailor

2011

Roc et Canyon poster
7.0

On the train taking them to summer camp, the teenagers eye each other warily. Hidden behind a curtain of hair, Augustin stubbornly keeps his Walkman on. More outgoing, Chloé and Marion have already invited the tall, handsome Gabriel to play cards. That evening, in the tent, Marion confides to her friend that she can’t stop thinking about him.

Roc et Canyon

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

29 ans, bientôt 45

2008