Bertrand Tavernier’s Journey of French Cinema – 2018
Bertrand Tavernier’s Journey of French Cinema (He loves Jacques Becker and talked about what he learned from Melville.)
Bertrand assisted Melville in making on Leon Morin the Priest, which he praised as Melville’s masterpiece.
Bertrand Taverniar with Gaspard Ulliel (click to see large)
Discussion.. how he works & state of film industry & showing off his encyclopedic film knowledge appearing with Gaspard Ulliel..(on youtube)
(Dirk Bogarde, Tavernier and Jane Birkin in Daddy Nostalgia.)
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)
Safe Conduct (Laisser-Passer) by Bertrand Tavernier.
The film is almost 3 hours long. The first half was a bit frantic and confusing but the last half the film began to take shape and delivers.
Filmmaking under Nazi rule during the occupation in France is the theme and the central character played by an actor who was a real biker made this cycling resistence movie memorable. The film deals with a controversial and difficult subject.
He shares a birthday with Paul Mazursky and Cy Twombly
In this interview of Bertrand Tavernier
T: I like to deal with subjects that attract me. I’m interested in people fighting, trying to change things, making mistakes. But I like each film to be a challenge, [as if] it’s my first. When you do a film on adoption and you arrive in a place like Cambodia, anything can happen.