Bertrand Tavernier
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Bertrand Tavernier is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, and producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

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Life and career

Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen or fourteen years old. He claims that his cinematic influences include filmmakers John Ford
John Ford
John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...

, William Wellman, Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

, Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...

 and Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director.Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game...

. The first film director with whom he worked was Jean-Pierre Melville. Later, his first film (The Clockmaker
The Clockmaker
-Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Michel Descombes*Jean Rochefort as Insp. Guilboud*Jacques Denis as Antoine*Yves Afonso as Insp. Bricard*Julien Bertheau as Edouard*Jacques Hilling as Costes*Clotilde Joano as Janine Boitard*Andrée Tainsy as Madeleine Fourmet...

, 1974) won the Prix Louis Delluc and the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize
Jury Grand Prix
The Jury Grand Prix is a Silver Bear award given by the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition...

 award at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival
24th Berlin International Film Festival
The 24th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1974.-Jury:* Rodolfo Kuhn * Margaret Hinxmann* Pietro Bianchi* Gérard Ducaux-Rupp* Kurt Heinz* Akira Iwasaki* Arthur Knight* Manfred Purzer...

.

His early work was dominated by mysteries, but his later work is characterized by a more overt social commentary, highlighting his pacifism (Life and Nothing But
Life and Nothing But
-Synopsis:Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Dellaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. Dellaplane forms a relationship with a woman who is looking for her missing husband, but a dilemma begins when he learns that her husband may...

, Capitaine Conan
Capitaine Conan
Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...

) and presenting a critical picture of contemporary French society (Ça commence aujourd'hui, Histoires de vies brisées : les double-peine de Lyon).

He won the BAFTA for best film in a language other than English in 1990 for Life and Nothing But
Life and Nothing But
-Synopsis:Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Dellaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. Dellaplane forms a relationship with a woman who is looking for her missing husband, but a dilemma begins when he learns that her husband may...

and a total of four César Award
César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....

s.

His film The Princess of Montpensier
The Princess of Montpensier
The Princess of Montpensier is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by a short story anonymously published by Madame de La Fayette. It stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël...

competed for the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

 at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
2010 Cannes Film Festival
The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 12 to May 23, 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the...

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He was married to screenwriter Claudine (Colo) O'Hagen from 1965 to 1980. They have two children. Their son, Nils Tavernier (born 1 September 1965), works as both a director and actor. Their daughter, Tiffany Tavernier (born in 1967), is a novelist, screenwriter and assistant director
Assistant director
The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

.

Director

  • 1963 : Les Baisers (The Kisses), segment 2 "Baiser de Judas" ("Kiss of Judas")
  • 1963 : Pays d'octobre (October Country/Country of October)
  • 1974 : Que la fête commence
    Que la fête commence
    Que la fête commence... is a 1975 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Philippe Noiret...

    (Let Joy Reign Supreme) with Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...

    , Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades.Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National...

  • 1974 : The Clockmaker
    The Clockmaker
    -Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Michel Descombes*Jean Rochefort as Insp. Guilboud*Jacques Denis as Antoine*Yves Afonso as Insp. Bricard*Julien Bertheau as Edouard*Jacques Hilling as Costes*Clotilde Joano as Janine Boitard*Andrée Tainsy as Madeleine Fourmet...

    (L'Horloger de Saint-Paul)
  • 1976 : Le Juge et l'assassin (The Judge and the Assassin
    The Judge and the Assassin
    The Judge and the Assassin is a 1976 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film won two César Awards in 1977.-Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Judge Rousseau*Michel Galabru as Sgt. Joseph Bouvier*Isabelle Huppert as Rose...

    ) with Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru
    Michel Galabru
    Michel Louis Edmond Galabru is a French actor born on 27 October 1922 in Safi, Morocco.-Career:Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with such renowned directors as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson , and Jean-Luc Godard...

     and Isabelle Huppert
  • 1977 : Des enfants gâtés
    Spoiled Children (film)
    Spoiled Children is a 1977 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.-Cast:* Michel Piccoli - Bernard Rougerie* Christine Pascal - Anne Torrini* Michel Aumont - Pierre* Gérard Jugnot - Marcel Bonfils* Arlette Bonnard - Catherine Rougerie...

    with Michel Piccoli, Michel Aumont
  • 1980 : Une semaine de vacances with Nathalie Baye
    Nathalie Baye
    Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye is a French film, television, and stage actress. After having dance and dramatic education, Baye began acting in 1970. She has appeared in more than 70 films. She won four César Awards for Sauve qui peut , Une étrange affaire , La Balance , and Le Petit Lieutenant...

    , Gérard Lanvin
    Gérard Lanvin
    Gérard Lanvin is a César Award-winning French actor. He quit his studies when he was 17 to become an actor. He took on a role in Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine in 1977 on an offer from actor Coluche. He received the Prix Jean Gabin in 1982 for his role in Une étrange affaire...

  • 1980 : Mort en direct, La (Death Watch)
  • 1981 : Coup de Torchon
    Coup de Torchon
    Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows the novel relatively faithfully, but changes its setting from a West Texas boom town to a small town in French West Africa.-Plot:Lucien Cordier is an...

    with Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

  • 1982 : Philippe Soupault
  • 1982 : Philippe Soupault et le Surréalisme
  • 1982 : Philippe Soupault, les images qu'ils aiment
  • 1983 : Un dimanche à la campagne (A Sunday in the Country
    A Sunday in the Country
    A Sunday in the Country is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.-Cast:* Louis Ducreux - Monsieur Ladmiral* Michel Aumont - Gonzague* Sabine Azéma - Irène* Geneviève Mnich - Marie-Thérèse* Monique Chaumette - Mercédès...

    ) with Sabine Azéma
    Sabine Azéma
    Sabine Azéma is a French actress. Born in Paris, she graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and began her film career in 1975...

    , Louis Ducreux
    Louis Ducreux
    Louis Ducreux was a French actor, screenwriter and composer. He was born Louis Raymond Bordat in Marseille, France. He made his film debut in 1938 and worked up until his death. He received a Best Actor nomination at the César Awards in 1985 for Bertrand Tavernier's A Sunday in the Country. He...

  • 1983 : Mississippi Blues with Bertrand Tavernier and Robert Parrish
    Robert Parrish
    Robert R. Parrish was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul....

  • 1985 : Round Midnight
    Round Midnight (film)
    Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by David Rayfiel and Bertrand Tavernier. It tells the story of an African American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who is befriended by an unsuccessful French graphic designer who idolizes the musician and who...

    (Autour de minuit) with Dexter Gordon
    Dexter Gordon
    Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

    , Lonette McKee
    Lonette McKee
    Lonette McKee is an American film and television actress, music composer/producer/songwriter, screenwriter and director.-Biography:...

    , François Cluzet
    François Cluzet
    François Cluzet is a French film and theatre actor, best known in the English-speaking world for starring in the 2006 French film "Tell No One", based on the novel of the same name by the American author Harlan Coben...

  • 1987 : La Passion Béatrice with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
    Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
    Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu was a French actor.-Biography:Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu studied theater and film at the Sorbonne Paris III and began his career in film at the age of 25 by making appearances with acclaimed directors...

    , Julie Delpy
    Julie Delpy
    Julie Delpy is a French-American actress, director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa , The Voyager , Three Colors: White , Before Sunrise...

  • 1988 : Lyon, le regard intérieur
  • 1989 : Life and Nothing But
    Life and Nothing But
    -Synopsis:Set in October 1920, it tells the story of Major Dellaplane, a man whose job is to find the identities of unknown dead soldiers after World War I. Dellaplane forms a relationship with a woman who is looking for her missing husband, but a dilemma begins when he learns that her husband may...

    (La Vie et rien d'autre)
  • 1990 : Daddy Nostalgie
    Daddy Nostalgia
    Daddy Nostalgie is a 1990 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Dirk Bogarde - Daddy* Jane Birkin - Caroline* Odette Laure - Miche...

    with Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

    , Jane Birkin
    Jane Birkin
    Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...

  • 1991 : Contre l'oubli with Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Akerman
    Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...

    , René Allio
    René Allio
    René Allio was a French film and theater director. Some of the movies and theater plays he directed include:* The Shameless Old Lady...

  • 1991 : L.627 with Didier Bezace
    Didier Bezace
    Didier Bezace, born 10 February 1946 in Paris, is a French actor.-Biography:Theatre student at the International Dramatic University Centre in Nancy, Didier Bezace received lessons from Bernard Drot, Jean-Marie Patte, Gilles Sandier, Maria Casarès and Henri Gourbion.Co-founder with Jean-Louis...

    , Jean-Roger Milo
  • 1992 : La Guerre Sans Nom documentary on the Algerian War
  • 1994 : La Fille de d'Artagnan (D'Artagnan's Daughter ) with Sophie Marceau
    Sophie Marceau
    Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...

    , Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...

  • 1995 : L'Appât
    L'Appât
    L'Appât is a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as a 'bait'...

    (Fresh Bait) with Marie Gillain
    Marie Gillain
    Marie Gillain is a Belgian actress.In 1996 Gillain received the Prix Romy Schneider. She is single but has two daughters, Dune and Vega .-In popular culture:* She was the heroine of the John Malkovich play Hysteria in Chicago on December 1999.* She...

    , Olivier Sitruk
    Olivier Sitruk
    Olivier Sitruk , is a French comedian, actor, and producer, who has appeared in 44 films and television shows....

  • 1996 : Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...

    with Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton is a French actor.-Biography:Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and fireman father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city...

    , Samuel Le Bihan
    Samuel Le Bihan
    Samuel Le Bihan is a French actor, notable for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf.-Cinema:* 1993: Promenades d'été, directed by René Féret* 1993: La place d'un autre, directed by René Féret...

  • 1998 : Ça commence aujourd'hui with Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi
  • 1998 : De l'autre côté du périph, directed by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier
  • 2001 : Histoires de vies brisées : les double-peine de Lyon (Stories of Shattered Lives: The Double Sorrow of Lyon) with Bertrand Tavernier and Nils Tavernier
  • 2001 : Laissez-passer with Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.He was born in Granville, Manche. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen before he tried to film in Paris.-Filmography:*Périgord Noir...

    , Denis Podalydès
    Denis Podalydès
    Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....

  • 2004 : Holy Lola
    Holy Lola
    Holy Lola is a 2004 French drama film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Tavernier said that the film is very, very moving, very exciting to do, and it made him fall in love with Cambodia.-Plot:...

    with Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.He was born in Granville, Manche. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen before he tried to film in Paris.-Filmography:*Périgord Noir...

    , Isabelle Carré
    Isabelle Carré
    Isabelle Carré is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in Se souvenir des belles choses , and has been nominated a further six times, for Beau fixe , Le Hussard sur le toit , La Femme défendue , Les Sentiments ,...

  • 2008 : In the Electric Mist
    In the Electric Mist
    In the Electric Mist is a 2009 Franco-American drama/mystical film based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke...

    with Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy Lee Jones
    Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....

  • 2010 : The Princess of Montpensier
    The Princess of Montpensier
    The Princess of Montpensier is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by a short story anonymously published by Madame de La Fayette. It stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël...

    with Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry, is a French actress best known to international audiences for her role as Aurora in the 2008 film Babylon A.D.-Biography:...


Screenwriter

  • Que la fête commence
    Que la fête commence
    Que la fête commence... is a 1975 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Philippe Noiret...

    (1974), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades.Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National...

  • Des enfants gâtés (1977), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, with Michel Piccoli, Michel Aumont
  • Coup de torchon (1981), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, with Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert
  • Un dimanche à la campagne (1983), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, with Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux
  • La Trace (The Trace) (1983) by Bernard Favre with Robin Renucci
    Robin Renucci
    Robin Renucci is a French film and television actor as well as a screen director.-Early life and education:He was born in Le Creusot, Saône-et-Loire, France.-Acting filmography:|1984 || Escalier C || comedie...

    , Richard Berry
    Richard Berry (actor)
    Richard Berry is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in nearly 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

  • Autour de minuit (Round Midnight) (1985) by Bertrand Tavernier with Lonette McKee, François Cluzet
  • Daddy Nostalgie (1990) by Bertrand Tavernier with Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin
  • L.627 (1991) by Bertrand Tavernier with Didier Bezace, Jean-Roger Milo
  • L'Appât (1995) by Bertrand Tavernier with Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk
  • Ca commence aujourd'hui (1998) by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi
  • Mon père, il m'a sauvé la vie (2000) by José Giovanni
    José Giovanni
    José Giovanni , was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French-Swiss writer and film-maker of Corsican origin....

     with Bruno Crémer
    Bruno Cremer
    Bruno Jean Marie Crémer was a French actor born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, who spent a part of his career on stage, but who also found success in the cinema and on television.- Biography :...

    , Vincent Lecoeur
  • Laissez-passer (2001) de Bertrand Tavernier with Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès Directeur

Producer

  • La Question
    La Question
    La Question is a book by Henri Alleg, published in 1958. It is notorious for precisely describing the methods of torture used by French paratroopers during the Algerian War from the point of view of a victim...

    (The Question) (1976) by Laurent Heynemann with Jacques Denis, Christian Rist
  • Une semaine de vacances (One Week of the Holidays) (1980) by Bertrand Tavernier with Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin
  • Un dimanche à la campagne (One Sunday in the Countryside) (1983) by Bertrand Tavernier with Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux
  • François Truffaut: portraits volés
    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
    François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Michel Pascal and Serge Toubiana, about the film director François Truffaut...

    (François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits ) (1992), directed by Michel Pascal, Serge Toubiana with Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...

    , Nathalie Baye
  • Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible (Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic) (2002), directed by N.T. Binh with Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Sarde
    Philippe Sarde
    -Biography:Philippe Sarde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.He is the brother of Alain Sarde. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.-Selected filmography:...


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