The Elysée paid tribute to director Bertrand Blier, who died Monday at the age of 85, “a giant of French cinema” whose family announced to AFP on Wednesday that they were organizing a public funeral in a week's time in the Parisian Church of Saint -Roch.
Director of “Buffet Froid”, “Tenue de soir” or “Les Valseuses”, Bertrand Blier “left his free and scathing mark on our national imagination for five decades”, write Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron in a press release.
“With his irony, his provocative use of words, his uncomfortably free gaze, he offered our imagination films that have become legendary,” they added. “He belonged to the great French tradition of painters of temperaments, between misanthropy and tenderness.”
Bertrand Blier, author of cult and provocative films in the 1970s and 1980s, made the heyday of Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc and Miou-Miou. Some of his works were great popular successes and his death turns a page in the history of cinema before-MeToo.
A ceremony open to the public will be organized on Wednesday January 29 at 10:30 a.m. in the Saint-Roch Church, in Paris, which is traditionally the church of entertainment personalities, with its Artists' Chaplaincy. It will be followed by a private burial in the Montmartre cemetery, his son Léonard announced to AFP.
-published on January 22 at 12:30 p.m., AFP
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