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Laurent Lafitte

Laurent Lafitte

4 films · 292 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20102024

Born 22 August 1973 · Paris, France

Laurent Lafitte is a French actor. He is known for playing the role of Patrick in Elle. In March 2016 he was named as the host of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2023 he starred in the Netflix mini-series Class Act (original name "Tapie") as the French businessman and politician Bernard Tapie.

Source: Article "Laurent Lafitte" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 292 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20102024

  • César Award for Best Actor2025
  • Knight of the National Order of Merit2022
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

How their films are shot

Measured across 292 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Laurent takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 47% natural — the look of the work Laurent takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night43%
Interior4%

Lighting

Natural47%
Low key36%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium59%
Wide18%
Closeup16%
Fullbody4%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle7%

Mood

Neutral70%
Tense13%
Lonely6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 292 frames from Laurent Lafitte's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.