Always as surprising and restless, Bertrand Blier is not a man to become encrusted in lucrative conformism. His thing is the unexpected; its niche, artistic slippage. At the controls of these two homing missiles, Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel, Blier the iconoclast has produced a corrosive comedy as surprising as it is explosive. His film is an alcoholic and optimistic fable, capable of making even cancer drunk! As for her play, “Sorry for the carpet…”*, performed by Myriam Boyer and Anny Duperey, it demonstrates that it is not enough to cover the sidewalks with soft carpets to make poverty and poverty disappear. Homeless… We went to meet the last of the provocateurs.
Paris Match. Why did it take six years to make a new film?
Bertrand Blier. I went through a bad patch, as happens to all directors. There are ups and downs. You know, we filmmakers are like traders! If I had had the courage to leave the cinema, I could have written three or four plays. Well, I have one that is played at the start of the school year, it’s not so bad. As for my film “The Sound of Icicles”, we can say that it was difficult to finance. It must be admitted that the subject is a little worrying…
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