
Virginie Legeay
Acting
Biography
After studying at the Ciné-Sup preparatory class and then at La Fémis (class of 2007, scriptwriting department), Virginie Legeay co-wrote Franco Lolli’s two feature films Gente de bien and Une mère incroyable (Litigante), both of which were screened at Premiers Plans. She also acted as a consultant on the screenplays for Emma Benestan’s Petite sauvage, Jean-Baptiste Durand’s Chien de la casse (Junkyard Dog) and Dania Reymond-Boughenou’s Les Tempêtes. All three were read at Premiers Plans.
Known For

A filmmaker holds a series of boundary-pushing auditions for his latest project: a thriller on the subject of female pleasure.
The Exterminating Angels

Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s inconceivable yet inescapable death, Silvia embarks on a love story, her first in many years.
The Defendant

Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.
The Girl from Nowhere

Nacer, a 45 year old journalist, is observing the appearance of strange yellow sandstorms looming over Algiers and its surroundings. While covering the phenomenon for his newspaper, he starts witnessing more and more supernatural events, until his late wife Fajar returns to life. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Samir has to face a dark past that haunts him.
Silent Storms

While Koala, the quartermaster, deeply sleeps, Captain Diamand tells the young sailor Luciole about the finest memory of his youth. She was called Cinnamon.
Youth
Audrey is a young woman from Lens who dreams of escaping her fate when she meets the Authentiks, a group of Ultras football fans. With them she discovers the fervour of a new world and gradually changes her outlook on herself and the world in ways she never imagined.
L’une des leurs

Portraits of people taken in a same space : space of listening, space of black & white. In this space can go together the fantasies of the model and the filmmaker.
But We Have the Music

Boris and Sandra meet and immediately love each other with a lively passion. Enough to help them fight the best enemy of their love: addiction. That of Boris on drugs, that of Sandra in Boris. Linked, attached to each other, reclusive but alive, they will try to live their love in a closed circuit. In doing so, everyone will discover in themselves an unexpected strength and humanity.
Les inséparables

The Hoffmann's are a famous couple of photographers. They are called to Berlin to shoot a significant commissioned series, but this work will not proceed as planned.
Les Photographes

Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.
Gente de bien

Born at the turn of the century in a village's butcher shop, Jeanne Lavaur dreams of becoming a countess. Inspired by the fearless Céleste and guided by her love for Guillaume de Barante, Jeanne’s journey carries her from the vibrant Paris of the Golden Twenties through the turmoil of two world wars. As her life intertwines with the great upheavals of the 20th century, she rises as a fiercely free woman, determined to never let anyone else define who she is meant to be.
The Golden Age
Pablo, aged sixteen, lives with his mother. Over the last few years, she has done her best to deal with financial difficulties, but it hasn't been easy. Pablo tries to keep living the way they used to.
Como todo el mundo

In an estate in the South of Algiers, in the middle of the nineties. Djaber and Yamina are neighbours, but do not know each other. For one as for the other, it is so difficult to meet between girls and boys, that they almost stopped dreaming about it. In a few days nevertheless, what was up to then that deaf and distant violence explodes in front of them, modifying for ever their fates.
The Days Before

Under the sun, the feet in the water, even at the beach people does not succeed to relax. Nobody may deny than something wrong is happening right beside them but everyone fake to not see anything...
La plage

It's birthday time. Drifting through the dark night, Vincent and Hervé are looking for something to do. You only turn 25 once.
Try to Die Young

Two lovers appeal to each other in the empty streets of Madrid, lost in the first dawn of 2018. Both of them cross a mountain tunnel the last night of 1999. They keep the same age, but their names are different. They want to get to a rave party where hundreds of youngsters like them will welcome 21st century. The car stops at the entrance of the woods, among the far music echoes, but the party and their lives empty out in the middle of a deluded night. In the first morning of the new millennium, they will contemplate the future. They will see Europa burn.
Europa
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