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{{Short description|French film director and writer (1939–2025)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Bertrand Blier
| image        = Bertrand Blier Cannes.jpg
| caption      = Blier in 1990
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1939|3|14|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Boulogne-Billancourt]], [[French Third Republic|France]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|2025|1|20|1939|3|14|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Paris]], France
| parents      = [[Bernard Blier]]<br>(father)
| occupation   = Film director, writer
| years_active = 1959–2019
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* Françoise (divorced)
* Catherine Florin (divorced)
* [[:fr:Farida Rahouadj|Farida Rahouadj]]
}}
| children     = 3
| partner      = [[Anouk Grinberg]]
| awards       = [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] (1979)<br> for ''[[Get Out Your Handkerchiefs]]''<br>[[César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation|César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation]] (1980)<br> for ''[[Buffet froid]]''
}}

'''Bertrand Blier''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁtʁɑ̃ blije|lang}}; 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">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1979 |title=The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners |access-date=7 June 2013 |work=oscars.org}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Blier.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Blier at the [[50th Venice International Film Festival]]]]
His 1996 film ''[[My Man (1996 film)|Mon Homme]]'' was entered into the [[46th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1996/02_programm_1996/02_Programm_1996.html |title=Berlinale: 1996 Programme |access-date=1 January 2012 |work=berlinale.de}}</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">{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2006 |title=28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006) |access-date=21 April 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421051006/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2006 |archive-date=21 April 2013 }}</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. {{ISBN|0-7190-5297-1}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Blier was born in [[Boulogne-Billancourt]] on 14 March 1939,<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Shrimpton |editor1-first=Leanda |title=International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Directors |date=1997 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-301-9 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFvv_Qo7-iEC |access-date=12 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> as the son of pianist Gisèle Brunet and actor [[Bernard Blier]].<ref>{{cite book|title=501 Movie Directors|editor-first=Steven Jay|editor-last=Schneider|publisher=Cassell Illustrated|location=London|year=2007|page=416|isbn=9781844035731|oclc=1347156402}}</ref> He never completed his [[Baccalauréat|bacalauréat]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nossiter |first=Adam |date=23 January 2025 |title=Bertrand Blier, Director of Sexually Blunt Films in France, Is Dead at 85 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/movies/bertrand-blier-dead.html |access-date=25 January 2025 |work=The New York Times |page=A20 |language=en-US |volume=174 |issue=60410 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>With his former wife Françoise, to whom he was married for twenty years, he had a daughter named Béatrice.<ref name="VSD">{{cite web |url=http://www.vsd.fr/actualite/bertrand-blier-2109 |title=Bertrand Blier |work=[[VSD (French magazine)|VSD]] |access-date=10 April 2016 |archive-date=20 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420142310/http://www.vsd.fr/actualite/bertrand-blier-2109 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also had a son, Léonard, born 1993, with actress [[Anouk Grinberg]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/un-deux-trois-anouk-grinberg-_t-19930929-Z079ER.html |title=Un Deux Trois, Anouk Grinberg! |work=[[Le Soir]]}}</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>{{Cite web |date=21 January 2025 |title=France's arch film provocateur Blier dies at 85 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-france-s-arch-film-provocateur-blier-dies-at-85 |access-date=21 January 2025 |website=France 24 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pulver |first1=Andrew |title=Controversial French director Bertrand Blier dies at age 85 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/21/bertrand-blier-dies |website=The Guardian |date=21 January 2025}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{{Main article|Bertrand Blier filmography}}

==Theatre==
* 1997: ''Les Côtelettes''
* 2010: ''Désolé pour la moquette...''

==Published works==
* 1972: ''[[Going Places (novel)|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==
{{Commons category|Bertrand Blier}}
* {{IMDb name|name=Bertrand Blier|id=0088397}}
* {{discogs artist|Bertrand Blier}}

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