« LBurgundy is a bit like my second home…” These were the words of Bertrand Blier, spoken in 2013, during an interview he gave to Public goodon the occasion of his appearance at the Semur-en-Auxois film festival
The director and screenwriter spoke of his family – “On my father’s side (the actor Bernard Blier, Editor’s note), there were Burgundians”, he said, but also of his filming in the region, and in particular that of the stage ultra-famous of the canal, in The Valseuses. Or in La Bussiere-sur-Ouche, for Calm.
Bertrand Blier, who was to meet high school students during his visit to the festival, also spoke of Châtillon-sur-Seine, “owhere we often stopped with my father to eat in a rather fabulous restaurant whose name I have forgotten”, by Father Dumaine (a legendary chef, predecessor of Dominique Loiseau, nicknamed during his lifetime “the king of chefs ”).
He also mentioned the role of small country cinemas, “one of the last ways to bring people together”.
-A Dijonnais had written a biography
Dijon native Vincent Roussel published, at the end of 2020, Bertrand Blier, cruel beautya work in which he develops all aspects of the work of the talented and unique director.
He had first discovered Bertrand Blier with Too beautiful for you with Gérard Depardieu and Josiane Balasko, “and above all Thank you life. That was the big shock. I remember seeing him in room 1 of the Darcy.” It was in 1991. Since then, he had developed a passion for Blier’s work.
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