The Plagiarist

Ideas improve. The meaning of words plays a role in that improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress depends on it. It sticks close to an author's phrasing, exploits his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with the right one.

After a cinema preparatory class in Nantes, Léo Richard became HPG, Hubert Viel and Maxime Martinot’s first assistant director before entering the editing department of La Fémis. The Plagiarist is his graduation film. CM/ SF : Le voleur de Lisbonne (Entrevues, 2016), Le Passant intégral (Entrevues 2017, with Eric Harold).