Bertrand Blier

Bertrand Blier ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 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.<ref name="Oscars1979">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

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Blier at the 50th Venice International Film Festival

His 1996 film Mon Homme was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Berlinale">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="Moscow2006">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Bertrand Blier - In the series French Film Directors. Template:ISBN</ref>

Personal life and death

Blier was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 14 March 1939,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as the son of pianist Gisèle Brunet and actor Bernard Blier.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He never completed his bacalauréat.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he had a daughter named Béatrice.<ref name="VSD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also had a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress Anouk Grinberg.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was married to actress Farida Rahouadj, with whom he had a daughter named Leila.<ref name="VSD"/>

Blier died at his residence in Paris, on 20 January 2025, at the age of 85.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

External links

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