Bertrand Blier Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Screenwriter , Director , Actor more
Nationality French
Birth March 14, 1939 (Paris – France)

BIOGRAPHY
After starting as an assistant director in 1959 on Oh! that mambo by John Berry and being noticed for his docu-fiction Hitler… don’t know! In 1963, Bertrand Blier directed his father, the legendary Bernard Blier , in his first fiction feature film, If I Was a Spy (1967).

However, it was not until 1974 that Blier, a director, made a name for himself with the public triumph of Les Valseuses and its star trio Gérard Depardieu , Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou . The Blier touch is established: acerbic humor and social truth. Four years later, Bertrand Blier reunited with his male duo Depardieu – Dewaere for Prepare your handkerchiefs before directing Depardieu solo and his father in Cold Buffet (1979), César for best screenplay, then Dewaere in the subversive Beau-Pere (1981) .

Screenwriter of all of his films (but also of Grosse Fatigue by Michel Blanc in 1994), the filmmaker signs with Tenue de soir one of the biggest scandals of French cinema of the 80s with its themes of homosexuality and threesomes addressed without detour. He once again reunited with Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou and won the Best Actor Prize at the Cannes Film Festival (for Michel Blanc ) and three nominations for the Césars. Three years later, the public and critical success of Trop belle pour toi is even more impressive: Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and five Césars including those for best film, best director and best actress (for Carole Bouquet ).

The 1990s were marked by a tidal wave of awards, largely due to his collaboration with Anouk Grinberg , a newcomer to Blier’s gallery of actors. We will cite Merci la vie (a César and 6 nominations) and Un, deux, trois, soleil in 1993 (two Césars and especially the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Festival for Marcello Mastroianni ) as well as My Man (1996), Prize for best actress for Anouk Grinberg at the Berlin Film Festival.

In 2000, the filmmaker brought together around thirty big names in French cinema for Les Acteurs, a tribute to the profession of gaming tinged with derision. If the film is rather well received, Les Côtelettes , with Philippe Noiret and Michel Bouquet as old epicureans expounding on the meaning of life and the pleasures of the flesh, divides the Cannes public, and receives a mixed national reception from the public and critics . Blier returned in 2005 with How much do you love me? , the story of a monetized love between the peripatetic Monica Bellucci and her client Bernard Campan . Ten years after Les Acteurs , he again directed Albert Dupontel , who had become the incarnation of Jean Dujardin ‘s cancer , in the dramatic comedy Le Bruit des glaçons .

Nine years later, after a detour to the theater to direct Sorry for the carpet and a few projects which did not come to fruition , he directed Exceptional Convoy , bringing together his favorite actor Gérard Depardieu with Christian Clavier .