Michel Legrand Movies

Catherine Varlin's 27-minute Playtime in Paris (1962) is almost a practice run for Le joli mai, a sampling that starts in a classroom and then...

After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises bulls, while the "riziers" gradually invade and...

An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.

A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.

An unhappy artist finally decides to paint a self-portrait but with the appearance of a wealthy person, with a car and a country house. What he does...

The title sums up the mood of this elegant short film in which a woman recalls her life, locked up for 30 years in the courtyard of a building where...

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win...

Ian and his sister Marina live on a beautiful tropical island with their Uncle Patrick, an old sailor who tells them wonderful stories and makes...

Jean Ravel's A Distant Gaze (D'un lointain regard) is a 12-minute observance of people on the streets backed by Michel Legrand music.

A hit man fails his contracts because of a young runner.

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment...

This short film is a metaphore for the destruction of the indian culture by the 'white man'.

Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich...

Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way causes him to be late for the meal which follows...

Director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand are interviewed about 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'