I came across the intriguing In the Electric Mist (2009) which I'm now watching and which Tavernier directed with a cast of Hollywood stars Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenbergen, Peter Saarsgaard, Kelly Macdonald and Ned Beatty. Strange that it was never released in cinemas in the United States and went straight to DVD.
Coup de Torchon (1981) was also memorable with wonderful performances by Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran.
R.I.P. Bertrand Tavernier
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I loved A Sunday in the Country, found Round Midnight dull and couldn't stand Daddy Nostalgia. I've also seen Tavernier in numerous documentaries, usually extras on DVDs in which he commented. He was quite the raconteur. Somehow I thought he was about ten years older than he was.
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I loved A Sunday in the Country, was disappointed by Round Midnight (got into many an argument with people who adored it), and have been shamefully lax about seeking the rest of his filmography.
He was narrator of a long-form documentary, My Journey through the French Cinema, which opened my eyes to many films of which I was unaware, and gave me greater insight into some I'd already seen. A wonderful historical document that's worth seeking out.
He was narrator of a long-form documentary, My Journey through the French Cinema, which opened my eyes to many films of which I was unaware, and gave me greater insight into some I'd already seen. A wonderful historical document that's worth seeking out.
R.I.P. Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier Dies: Legendary French Filmmaker Was 79
Nancy Tartaglione
March 25, 2021 8:09AM PDT
Iconic French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, known for such award winning works as A Sunday In The Country, Round Midnight, Capitaine Conan, It All Starts Today and Life And Nothing But, has died at the age of 79. The news was confirmed by France’s Lumière Institute in Lyon of which Tavernier was president.
The organization tweeted: “With his wife Sarah, his children Nils and Tiffany and his grandchildren, the Lumière Institute and Thierry Frémaux are saddened and pained to inform you of the death, today, of Bertrand Tavernier.”
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, although Tavernier’s friend and fellow filmmaker Claude Lelouch told France Info radio that he had been ill for some time. Lelouch called Tavernier’s passing, “a colossal loss for French cinema.”
Tavernier was born in Lyon in 1941, also the birthplace of the Lumière brothers, and was initially a film critic. He also worked as a press attaché for Stanley Kubrick before directing his first film, 1974’s L’Horloger De Saint-Paul (The Clockmaker) in his hometown.
That film began a collaboration with actor Philippe Noiret that would span another five pictures including 1975’s Que La Fête Commence (Let Joy Reign Supreme), 1976’s Le Juge Et L’Assassin (The Judge And The Assassin), 1981’s Coup De Torchon, 1989’s La Vie Et Rien D’Autre (Life And Nothing But) and 1994’s La Fille D’Artagnan (Revenge Of The Musketeers).
Tavernier’s films have won several awards including the Berlin Golden Bear for 1995’s L’Appat (The Bait), a Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA for Life And Nothing But, the Cannes Best Director prize with 1984’s A Sunday In The Country and myriad Césars among others.
His 1986 jazz film, Round Midnight, was nominated for two Oscars and won for Herbie Hancock’s original score.
Tavernier was passionate about cinema, also writing books on the subject including Amis Américains, a celebrated compendium of interviews with 28 major Hollywood directors; and directing the 2017 documentary Journeys Through French Cinema. He became president of the Lumière Institute at the time of its creation in 1982 and founded the Lumière Festival with fellow Lyonnais Thierry Frémaux in 2009.
Said filmmaker Robert Guediguian today, “He was perhaps the man who loved cinema the most in all of France.”
Nancy Tartaglione
March 25, 2021 8:09AM PDT
Iconic French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, known for such award winning works as A Sunday In The Country, Round Midnight, Capitaine Conan, It All Starts Today and Life And Nothing But, has died at the age of 79. The news was confirmed by France’s Lumière Institute in Lyon of which Tavernier was president.
The organization tweeted: “With his wife Sarah, his children Nils and Tiffany and his grandchildren, the Lumière Institute and Thierry Frémaux are saddened and pained to inform you of the death, today, of Bertrand Tavernier.”
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, although Tavernier’s friend and fellow filmmaker Claude Lelouch told France Info radio that he had been ill for some time. Lelouch called Tavernier’s passing, “a colossal loss for French cinema.”
Tavernier was born in Lyon in 1941, also the birthplace of the Lumière brothers, and was initially a film critic. He also worked as a press attaché for Stanley Kubrick before directing his first film, 1974’s L’Horloger De Saint-Paul (The Clockmaker) in his hometown.
That film began a collaboration with actor Philippe Noiret that would span another five pictures including 1975’s Que La Fête Commence (Let Joy Reign Supreme), 1976’s Le Juge Et L’Assassin (The Judge And The Assassin), 1981’s Coup De Torchon, 1989’s La Vie Et Rien D’Autre (Life And Nothing But) and 1994’s La Fille D’Artagnan (Revenge Of The Musketeers).
Tavernier’s films have won several awards including the Berlin Golden Bear for 1995’s L’Appat (The Bait), a Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA for Life And Nothing But, the Cannes Best Director prize with 1984’s A Sunday In The Country and myriad Césars among others.
His 1986 jazz film, Round Midnight, was nominated for two Oscars and won for Herbie Hancock’s original score.
Tavernier was passionate about cinema, also writing books on the subject including Amis Américains, a celebrated compendium of interviews with 28 major Hollywood directors; and directing the 2017 documentary Journeys Through French Cinema. He became president of the Lumière Institute at the time of its creation in 1982 and founded the Lumière Festival with fellow Lyonnais Thierry Frémaux in 2009.
Said filmmaker Robert Guediguian today, “He was perhaps the man who loved cinema the most in all of France.”