Bertrand Tavernier
Known for: Directing
Born: April 25, 1941
Died: March 25, 2021
Place of birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, producer and writer, born on April 25, 1941 in Lyon, and died on March 25, 2021 in Sainte-Maxime (Var). Son of the writer and resistance fighter from Lyon, René Tavernier, he was first an assistant director, press officer (notably for Stanley Kubrick) and critic before moving on to directing with The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, his first critical success, which led to a long collaboration with the actor Philippe Noiret (Let the Party Begin..., The Judge and the Assassin, Coup de torchon, Life and Nothing But, The Daughter of d'Artagnan). Eclectic, he tackled several cinematographic genres, from the dramatic comedy (A Sunday in the Country, Daddy Nostalgia) to the war film (Captain Conan) through the historical film (Pass, The Princess of Montpensier) or the thriller (L.627, The Bait). Several of his films have won awards, in France and abroad (including Autour de minuit which won an Oscar and was nominated for a Golden Globe). He was president of the Lumière Institute from 1982, the year the Institute was created, until his death. He is the father of director and actor Nils Tavernier and novelist Tiffany Tavernier.
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Filmography
84 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
7.1
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
2024
7.4
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
NR
Les Secrets de la belle endormie
2020
7.3
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
2019
6.0
An American Named Kazan
2019
9.0
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018
8.5
Journeys Through French Cinema
2017
NR
Souvenirs de Voyage
2017
7.6
My Journey Through French Cinema
2016
7.8
Lumière!
2016NR
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
2016
NR
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016
1.0
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
NR
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
2014
6.0
The French Minister
2013
NR
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
2012
NR
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
2011
6.3
The Princess of Montpensier
2010
NR
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
2010
NR
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010
6.7
Code Name: Melville
2010
6.1
In the Electric Mist
2009
7.0
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
2008
7.2
Filmmakers in Action
2006
NR
Michael Powell
2005
5.8
Holy Lola
2004
NR
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
2004
8.0
Seuls sont les indomptés
2003
8.0
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003
NR
Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
2003
6.5
Safe Conduct
2002
5.0
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
2002
4.5
L'Invité
2002
8.0
Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon
2001
7.4
My Father Saved My Life
2001
6.5
Don't Make Trouble!
2001
7.3
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
20008.0
In the Shadow of Hollywood
2000
7.1
It All Starts Today
1999
8.0
The Other Side of the Tracks
1997
7.2
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
1997
6.3
Fred
1997
6.6
Captain Conan
1996
7.2
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
1996
10.0
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
1996
6.9
The World of Jacques Demy
1995
6.4
Fresh Bait
1995NR
The Cineastes' Exit
1995
5.8
The Troubles We've Seen
1994
5.7
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994
8.5
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
9.0
Gershwin
1993
7.1
The Young Girls Turn 25
1993
5.6
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
7.1
L.627
1992
8.3
The Undeclared War
1992
7.0
Lest We Forget
1991
7.2
Daddy Nostalgia
1990
NR
Pictures of Europe
1990
7.2
Life and Nothing But
1989
7.1
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1988
5.8
Beatrice
1987
7.1
'Round Midnight
1986
4.0
Before Midnight
1986
10.0
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
1984
7.1
Mississippi Blues
1984
6.9
A Sunday in the Country
1984
7.0
Coup de Torchon
1981
6.1
A Week's Vacation
1980
6.3
Death Watch
1980
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
6.2
Spoiled Children
1977
5.7
The Question
1977
6.8
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
6.4
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
9.5
Spécial cinéma
1974
5.5
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
6.9
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
6.0
Midi trente
1972
5.9
Paranoia
1969
7.0
Guerilla Hellcats
1968
2.9
Mexican Slayride
1967
6.3
A Matter of Honor
1966
5.6
Chance at Love
1964
5.5
Les baisers
1964
7.0
Contempt
1963
6.9
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
1963
7.4
Le Doulos
1962
7.1
Léon Morin, Priest
19619.0
L'homme au cigare
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