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Bertrand Tavernier

Bertrand Tavernier

French film director
April 25, 1941 (March 25, 2021)
Fr. 2016. Documentary by Bertrand Tavernier. The director evokes his childhood memories of cinema and his beginnings behind the camera.
Runtime: 195 min.
Fr. 2013. Satire by Bertrand Tavernier with Raphaël Personnaz, Thierry Lhermitte, Niels Arestrup. A left-wing idealist tries to maneuver his way into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he has the task of writing the speeches of the minister, a politician who is both brilliant and whimsical.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2010. History by Bertrand Tavernier with Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel. France, 1562, torn by the war between Catholics and Huguenots, a young princess stirs up rivalries between her husband and two suitors.
Runtime: 139 min.
U.S. 2009. Crime drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard. A Louisiana detective investigating the murder of a prostitute is led to reopen a 40-year-old racial crime case.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 2008. Crime drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard. In Louisiana, a police officer investigating a series of murders of young women reopens the case of a racist crime that occurred forty years earlier.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2004. Social drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Bruno Putzulu. A French couple comes to Cambodia to adopt a child and faces many obstacles that put their love to the test.
Runtime: 130 min.

Safe Conduct

V.O.: Laissez-passer
Fr. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Bertrand Tavernier with Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Marie Gillain. In Paris, during World War II, a writer and an assistant director each fight against the German occupation in their own way.
Runtime: 170 min.
Fr. 2000. Biography by José Giovanni with Bruno Cremer, Vincent Lecoeur, Rufus. In the late 1940s, a young man sentenced to death for gangsterism despises his father who, nevertheless, moves Heaven and Earth to save him.
Runtime: 115 min.

It All Starts Today

V.O.: Ça commence aujourd'hui
Fr. 1999. Social drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci. The daily struggles of the director of a kindergarten in a small town in northern France hit hard by unemployment.
Runtime: 117 min.
Runtime: 130 min.

Fresh Bait

V.O.: L'Appât
Runtime: 115 min.

D'Artagnan's Daughter

V.O.: La Fille de d'Artagnan
Fr. 1994. Adventures by Bertrand Tavernier with Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich. A young girl convinces her musketeer father to help her find the perpetrators of a massacre committed in her convent.
Runtime: 125 min.
Fr. 1994. Documentary by Marcel Ophuls.
Runtime: 226 min.
Fr. 1992. Crime drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Didier Bezace, Philippe Torreton, Charlotte Kady. The daily difficulties encountered by members of an anti-drug brigade installed in shabby barracks in Paris.
Runtime: 145 min.
Fr. 1992. Documentary by Bertrand Tavernier. A look at the Algerian conflict from 1954 to 1962, which was never officially designated as a war by the French government.
Runtime: 240 min.
Fr. 1990. Psychological drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Jane Birkin, Dirk Bogarde, Odette Laure. A young woman tries to get closer to her father who is suffering from a fatal disease.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1989. Social drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal. In 1920, a French army commander in charge of identifying all those missing from the Great War falls in love with a woman looking for her husband.
Runtime: 137 min.
Fr. 1987. Mores drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Monique Chaumette. In the fourteenth century, after a long captivity, a tormented and violent knight plunders the surrounding villages and even rapes his daughter in defiance of God.
Runtime: 127 min.

Round Midnight

V.O.: Autour de minuit
Fr. 1986. Musical drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker. A young Parisian jazz fan befriends an elderly American saxophonist who is an alcoholic and becomes his manager.
Runtime: 133 min.

A Sunday in the Country

V.O.: Un Dimanche à la campagne
Fr. 1984. Dramatic comedy by Bertrand Tavernier with Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azéma, Michel Aumont. An elderly widowed painter welcomes his son and daughter in his villa in the country.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1983. Mores drama by Bernard Favre with Richard Berry, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Robin Renucci. In the fall of 1859, a Savoyard farmer becomes a peddler and embarks on a tour that will take him across the mountains to northern Italy.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1982. Documentary by Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish. In Mississippi, two filmmakers ask people about relations between Blacks and whites and the origins of blues music.
Runtime: 97 min.

Clean Slate

V.O.: Coup de torchon
Runtime: 128 min.
Fr. 1980. Psychological drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru, Gérard Lanvin.
Runtime: 102 min.

Death Watch

V.O.: La Mort en direct
Fr. 1979. Science-fiction by Bertrand Tavernier with Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton.
Runtime: 128 min.
Fr. 1977. Social drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont. Having rented an apartment in a multi-unit building, a film director becomes interested in the problems of the other tenants.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 1976. Social drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Jean-Claude Brialy. At the end of the nineteenth century, an investigating judge outwits a murderer to further his career.
Runtime: 127 min.

Let Joy Reign Supreme

V.O.: Que la fête commence...
Fr. 1974. History by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle. In 1719, Abb
Runtime: 115 min.

The Clockmaker of St. Paul

V.O.: L'Horloger de Saint-Paul
Fr. 1973. Psychological drama by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis. Upon learning that his son is wanted for murder, a man questions his paternal responsibility.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1968. Adventures by Jean Leduc with Elga Andersen, Robert Woods, Marc Michel. The daughter of a former Nazi officer is hired by an industrialist to destroy a group of mercenaries and seize the diamonds they
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1964. Sketches by Claude Berri, Bertrand Tavernier, Charles L. Bitsch, Eric Schlumberger, Claude Chabrol with Francis Blanche, Michel Auclair, Michel Piccoli. Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1963. Sketches by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-François Hauduroy, Charles L. Bitsch, Bernard Toublanc-Michel with Marie-France Boyer, Letitia Roman, Michel Bardinet. Five short plots based on the theme of kissing.
Runtime: 75 min.

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