Director Bertrand Blier has just passed away at the age of 85. He leaves behind an important filmography and several masterpieces. One of them even won him an Oscar for best foreign language film (and it’s not the one you’re thinking of).
It is the disappearance of one of the giants of cinema. Director Bertrand Blier died this Tuesday, January 21, 2025, his family announced to AFP. The filmmaker, son of the unforgettable Tontons flingueurs actor Bernard Blier, was 85 years old. His father, Bertrand Blier, had him filmed in the first film he directed, If I Was a Spy, in 1967: the first in a long series.
An Oscar in 1979 for “Prepare Your Tissues”
In 1978, Bertrand Blier released the film Prepare your handkerchiefs, a Franco-Belgian co-production for which he called on the duo who had made part of the success of Les Valseuses in 1974, Patrick Dewaere and Gérard Depardieu. In this film, Bertrand Blier recounts the quest of Raoul (Gérard Depardieu) to make his wife Solange (Carole Laure) smile again. Thinking that a little romantic adventure could change her mind, he decides to introduce her to a complete stranger he met earlier in a restaurant, Stéphane (Patrick Dewaere). A few months later, the film, which had a total of 1.3 million cinema admissions in France, won the Oscar for best foreign language film in Los Angeles. A consecration for Bertrand Blier, who will also see Prepare the Handkerchiefs receive the César for best original music at the 4th César ceremony.
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