Adieu Bertrand Tavernier, A Genius, My Favorite Filmmaker
Sad news from Variety. Bertrand Tavernier passed away
Bertrand Tavernier, French Filmmaker and Leader of a Generation, Dies at 79
Daddy Nostalgia.
(Dirk Bogarde, Tavernier and Jane Birkin in Daddy Nostalgia.)
Dirk Bogard said “Tavernier knows more about the cinema than practically any director I have worked with, Visconti coming a close second.’ I have said, when asked, that Visconti is the Emperor of film, Losey is the King, Tavernier is the Genius in the minutiae of life which he gets on to a cinema screen as no one else has ever done quite so brilliantly before. Nothing very much happens in a Tavernier film. Just all of life.”
Coup de Torchon – Noiret and Stephane Audran
A Sunday in a Country 
Tavernier won the best director at Cannes with this film.(Exquisite and beautifully filmed family drama)
Dexter Gordon was nominated for an Oscar. (He should have won)
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Bertrand Taverniar with Gaspard Ulliel 
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Discussion.. how he works & state of film industry & showing off his encyclopedic film knowledge appearing with Gaspard Ulliel..(on youtube)