Bertrand Tavernier
Known for: Directing
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.
Filmography
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
L'Invité
Self
2002
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
Midi trente
Self
1972
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Film
Filmmakers in Action
Self
2006
Film
Daddy Nostalgia
Narrator (uncredited)
1990
Film
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Self
1993
Series
Journeys Through French Cinema
Self
2017
Film
The French Minister
Un journaliste TV (voice)
2013
Film
Lumière, Le Cinéma!
Self
2024
Film
The World of Jacques Demy
Self
1995
Film
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
Self
2010
Film
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Self
2016
Film
Pictures of Europe
Self
1990
Film
A Sunday in the Country
Le narrateur
1984
Series
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Michael Powell
2005
Film
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Self - Director
2000
Film
Seuls sont les indomptés
Lui-même
2003
Film
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Young Man / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1963
Film
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Un homme du pouvoir (uncredited)
1974
Film
The Young Girls Turn 25
Self
1993
Film
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Self
2018
Film
Souvenirs de Voyage
2017
Film
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self
1993
Film
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Self
2002
Film
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
Self
2014
Film
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Self
1997
Film
In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin
Self
2012
Film
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Self
2008
Film
Code Name: Melville
Self
2010
Film
Les Secrets de la belle endormie
Self
2020
L'homme au cigare
Himself
Film
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Self
1988
Film
Gershwin
Self
1993
Film
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Self
2019
Film
My Journey Through French Cinema
Self
2016
Film
Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
Self
2003
Film
Il était une fois... « La règle du jeu »
Self (cinéaste)
2011
Film
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
Self
2015
Film
An American Named Kazan
Self
2019
Film
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
Lui-même
1984
Film
The Undeclared War
Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
Film
The Other Side of the Tracks
Lui-même
1997
Film
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
Himself
2010
Film
The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis
2004
In the Shadow of Hollywood
Self
2000
Film
The Lumière Brothers' First Films
Narrator
1996
The Cineastes' Exit
Narrator
1995
M présenté par Bertrand Tavernier
Self
2016