Bertrand Blier
César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation (1980) for Buffet froid Bertrand Blier (14 March 1939 – 20 January 2025) was a French film director and writer. His 1978 film Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
Bertrand Blier
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- Name
- Bertrand Blier
- Born
- 14 March 1939
- Birthplace
- Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Died
- 20 January 2025
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Film director, writer
- Spouse
- * Françoise (divorced)
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1979) for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- film · cinematography
- Known for
- Going Places · Get Out Your Handkerchiefs · Buffet froid
- Honours
- César Award for Best Director
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• Name — Bertrand Blier • Born — 14 March 1939 • Birthplace — Boulogne-Billancourt, France • Died — 20 January 2025 • Place of death — Paris, France • Parents — Bernard Blier (father) • Occupation — Film director, writer • Years Active — 1959–2019 • Spouse — * Françoise (divorced) • Catherine Florin (divorced) • Farida Rahouadj • Children — 3 • Partner — Anouk Grinberg • Awards — Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1979) for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
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Bertrand Blier (14 March 1939 – 20 January 2025) was a film director.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Blier at the 50th Venice International Film Festival His 1996 film Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2005 film How Much Do You Love Me? was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver George for Best Director. A defence of Blier's work until 2000 was written by Sue Harris, Queen Mary College, London and published in 2001 by Manchester University Press.
Personal life and death
Personal life and death
Blier was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 14 March 1939, as the son of pianist Gisèle Brunet and actor Bernard Blier. He never completed his baccalauréat. With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he had a daughter named Béatrice. He also had a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress Anouk Grinberg. He was married to actress Farida Rahouadj, with whom he had a daughter named Leila. Blier died at his residence in Paris, on 20 January 2025, at the age of 85.
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Bertrand Blier was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). The death is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Theatre
Theatre
• 1997: Les Côtelettes • 2010: Désolé pour la moquette...
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Boulogne-Billancourt.
Birth place
9th arrondissement of Paris.
Death place
Published works
• 1972: Les Valseuses (Eng. Going Places, 1974) • 1979: Buffet Froid • 1981: Beau-père • 1997: Les Côtelettes • 1998: Existe en blanc • 2001: Pensées, répliques et anecdotes • 2010: Désolé pour la moquette... • 2022: Fragile des bronches
Bertrand Blier alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia nel 1993
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Tombe de Bertrand Blier au cimetière de Montmartre.
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- 1.Bertrand Blier - La biographie de Bertrand Blier avec Gala.fr. Gala.fr.
- 2.Who’s Who in France. Éditions Jacques Lafitte. 1992.
- 3.Hitler, connais pas ! de Bertrand Blier - (1963) - Film - Documentaire - L'essentiel - Télérama.fr.
- 4.Jean Rochefort à propos du film "Calmos". Ina.fr. 1976-02-29.
- 5.Bertrand Blier, Jp's Box-office.
- 6.Pierre Murat. Bertrand Blier : "pour moi il n'y a plus de cinéma". Télérama.
- 7.Robert Abele. Review: Evaluating Oscar winner ‘Get Out Your Handkerchiefs’ 40 years later. latimes.com. 17 avril 2019.
- 8.La Femme de mon pote de Bertrand Blier, France, 1983. Festival Lumière 2014.
- 9.Lucas Bretonnier. Comiques du rire au drame, la consécration. leparisien.fr.
- 10.Les Côtelettes sont cuites. Libération. 26 mai 2003.
- 11.« pantalonnades rances » pour Les Inrocks
- 12.Grassin Sophie. Roman: Existe en blanc par Bertrand Blier. L'Express. 5 novembre 1998.
- 13.Gérard Depardieu, acteur le mieux payé. L'Obs. 20-02-2006.
- 14.Louis Guichard. Le box-office de Jean “Brice” Dujardin surfe sur la vague… et boit parfois la tasse. Télérama. 18 octobre 2016 (m-à-j le 1 février 2018.
- 15.Le Bruit des glaçons, AlloCiné.
- 16.Bertrand Blier : "Dans ma vie, j'ai écouté trop de musiques". Le Figaro. 18 septembre 2017.
- 17.Gérard Depardieu et Christian Clavier tournent depuis huit jours dans un petit quartier calme d'Etterbeek. DH.be. 20 février 2018.
- 18.Bertrand Blier, VSD, .
- 19.Bertrand Blier et sa femme Farida Rahouadj - Générale de la pièce de théâtre "Tout ce que vous voulez" au Théâtre , Pure People, .
- 20.Anouk Grinberg révèle les violences sexistes et sexuelles qu'elle a subies Les Inrocks. https://www.lesinrocks.com/.
- 21.Le réalisateur Bertrand Blier est mort à 85 ans. Le Figaro. 2025-01-21.
- 22.Article fr auteur1=Véronique Cauhapé Bertrand Blier, réalisateur et scénariste, auteur des « Valseuses », est mort à 85 ans Le Monde 2025-01-21 lire en https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2025/01/21/bertrand-blier-realisateur-et-scenariste-auteur-des-valseuses-est-mort-a-85-ans_6508368_3382.html consulté le=2025-01-21 .
- 23.Jean Dujardin, Josiane Balasko, Anny Duperey. Les hommages à Bertrand Blier. Le Figaro. 2025-01-21.
- 24.Le réalisateur Bertrand Blier est mort à 85 ans. France Inter. 2025-01-21.
- 25.Mort de Bertrand Blier : Les chaînes de télévision chamboulent leurs programmes pour rendre hommage au réalisateur. www.programme-tv.net. 2025-01-21.
- 26.Mort de Bertrand Blier : son fils brise le silence et en dit plus sur ses obsèques, Gala,
- 27.Bertrand Blier, cinéaste de l'anticonformisme et de l'humour noir. www.lunion.fr. 2025-01-21.
- 28."Iconoclaste", "passionné", "un inventeur dans le cinéma". les hommages pleuvent après la mort de Bertrand Blier. Franceinfo. 2025-01-21.
- 29.Bertrand Blier, l'iconoclaste impénitent. television.telerama.fr.
- 30.Bertrand Blier, réalisateur des « Valseuses » et « Buffet froid », est mort. CharenteLibre.fr. 2025-01-21.
- 31.Bertrand Blier dans le texte : «J’ai toujours adoré déshabiller les femmes au cinéma ». parismatch.com. 2025-01-21.
- 32.“On n’est pas bien là ?” Les répliques cultes des films de Bertrand Blier.
- 33.Le réalisateur français Bertrand Blier s’éteint.
- 34.Entretien avec Bertrand Blier. Regards. 1er décembre 1998.
- 35.Bertrand Blier : "Pour moi, il n'y a plus de cinéma". Télérama. 27 août 2010.
- 36.Michel Audiard.
- 37.Accusé de violences sexuelles: Une tribune de soutien à Gérard Depardieu qui crée le malaise. L'indépendant. 2023-12-26.
- 38.Jérémy Piaud - Biographie. IMDb.
- 39.Lien vidéo Il n'est jamais trop tard https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=282053.html fr consulté le=2025-02-05 AlloCine .
- 40.Papa, Alexandre, Maxime et Eduardo(2015). www.unifrance.org.
- 41.Bertrand Blier (Réalisateur français) - JP Box-Office. www.jpbox-office.com.
- 42.Fragile des bronches, de Bertrand Blier : artiste du vocabulaire. Le Figaro. 14 février 2022.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Sue Harris, Bertrand Blier, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001, .
- Vincent Roussel, Bertrand Blier, cruelle beauté, Paris, Marest Editeur, 2021, .
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