Less than a week after David Lynch, Bertrand Blier, another director recognized by his peers, died this Monday, January 20, 2025, at the age of 85. He died”peacefully at home in Paris, surrounded by his wife and children“, declared his son Léonard Blier to AFP.
“My friend’s wife” this Tuesday January 21 on W9
A few hours after the announcement of his disappearance, W9 disrupted its programs. The M6 group channel will broadcast “La femme de mon pote” (1983), a film with Coluche, Thierry Lhermitte and Isabelle Huppert.
In this comedy, “two friends, Pascal (Thierry Lhermitte) and Micky (Coluche), work in a winter sports resort. Pascal has an affair with Viviane (Isabelle Huppert) who is far from leaving Micky indifferent, but she is his friend's wife… Until the day Pascal pushes him into Viviane's arms. Micky gives in and ends up spending a few days with the young woman while Pascal is away.“.
Thus, the rebroadcast of the fifth edition of “Marrakech du laughter” 2015, presented by Jamel Debbouze, is canceled.
“Evening outfit” on Sunday January 26 on France 5
France 5 also canceled its Sunday, January 26, 2025 bonus to pay tribute to the “filmmaker, daring director and genius screenwriter“, Who “leaves a legacy of a major work which marked French cinema”. At 9:05 p.m., the public channel will broadcast “Evening Wear”, “one of his films which sparked debate and recognition upon its release” in 1986.
-In this film with Gerard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Bruno Crémer, “Antoine (Michel Blanc) and Monique (Miou-Miou) are in dire straits and in the middle of a crisis. It is then that Bob (Gérard Depardieu) violently appears in their lives. Superb, great lord, he showers them with tickets before leading them into burglaries. Monique comes back to life. Antoine remains worried. He feels that Monique is slipping away from him. But it's not her that Bob is interested in, it's him. Antoine refuses, defends himself. Then, pushed by Monique who does not want to let his fortune disappear, he lets it happen. And he enjoys it“, it is indicated in the synopsis.
Thus, the broadcast of the unpublished documentary The Mystery of the Beluga Spy”, directed by Jennifer Shaw, Aurélien Biette and Alexandre Soullier, is postponed to a later date.
Paris Première rebroadcasts “Les valseuses” on January 29 and debates around the film in the second part of the evening
Paris Première will also pay tribute to Bertrand Blier by rebroadcasting the feature film “Les valseuses”, followed by a special program entitled “50 years later, should we send 'Les valseuses' waltzing?”.
The films of Bertrand Blier, an outstanding dialogue writer, adept at dark and crude humor, left their mark on the cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. His name will remain associated with that of Gérard Depardieu, whose career he launched in 1974 in ” Les valseuses”, alongside Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou. A subversive film that has become cult, “Les valseuses” is also marked by a gritty humor that was shocking at the time. Blier's work today comes under criticism for its misogyny or the way in which it depicts male domination.
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