Bertrand Blier
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Bertrand Blier (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 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.[1]
Career
His 1996 film Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
Personal life and death
Blier was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 14 March 1939,[5] as the son of pianist Gisèle Brunet and actor Bernard Blier.[6] He never completed his bacalauréat.[7]With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he had a daughter named Béatrice.[8] He also had a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress Anouk Grinberg.[9] He was married to actress Farida Rahouadj, with whom he had a daughter named Leila.[8]
Blier died at his residence in Paris, on 20 January 2025, at the age of 85.[10][11]
Filmography
Theatre
- 1997: Les Côtelettes
- 2010: Désolé pour la moquette...
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
References
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External links
- Template:Trim/ Bertrand Blier at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE discography at Discogs
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- 1939 births
- 2025 deaths
- French film directors
- French male screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- Directors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winners
- Best Director César Award winners
- Writers from Boulogne-Billancourt
- Best Original Screenplay César Award winners
- Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation César Award winners
- Directors of Best Film César Award winners