Julien Leclercq (born 7 August 1979) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
Julien Leclercq began his career in 2004 with the production of the short film ''Transit'', in which he explored a retro-future world populated by half-flesh, half-metal beings. The short film got the attention of the producer Franck Chorot and
Gaumont, who promptly offered Leclercq a budget of 8.7 million euros to produce his first feature film ''
Chrysalis
A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their ...
'', the story of a police lieutenant (played by
Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-u ...
) who tries to find his wife's killer in a Paris of 2025. Leclercq returned to reality to undertake the ambitious project of ''
L'Assaut'', a film about
the hijack of the Paris-Algiers flight in December 1994.
His work includes directing the 2013 film ''
The Informant'', producing the 2014 film ''
L'Affaire SK1'', and writing and directing the 2015 film ''
Braqueurs
''The Crew'' (french: Braqueurs) is a 2015 French action thriller film directed and co-written by Julien Leclercq. The film is about a Parisian heist crew led by Yanis Zeri ( Sami Bouajila) which specializes in well-planned robberies of armoured ...
''.
Filmography
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Living people
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
People from Somain, Nord
1979 births
French film producers
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