Not only is this Bertrand Blier’s first major film; it is also the film which propelled
actor Gérard Depardieu to stardom. Although the film has its strengths –
mainly some very funny comic situations... [More...]
In this very entertaining light romantic comedy, Bertrand Blier re-unites the dream team
Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, in a near reprise of their roles in his 1974
film Les Valseuses... [More...]
Widely regarded as one of Bertrand Blier’s greatest achievements, Buffet froid
is one of the darkest and most original of black comedies that French cinema has given
us... [More...]
The ménage-à-trois situation is a recurring theme in director Bertrand Blier’s
deliciously subversive filmography and it is always interesting to compare the different
way he approaches the subject... [More...]
In a similar vein to Blier’s splendidly surreal Buffet froid, Notre histoire
takes conventional themes, such as bourgeois hypocrisy and obsessive love... [More...]
French film director Bertrand Blier is no stranger to controversy, and in Tenue de
soirée he frames possibly his most explicit and shocking view of the devastating
power of human sexuality... [More...]
Bertrand Blier’s most impressive film to date, Trop belle pour toi is an intensely
melancholic and moving portrait of obsession and marital infidelity starring France’s
leading actor... [More...]
Artistically brilliant in its presentation but structurally an incoherent, self-indulgent
muddle, Merci la vie is a film that has as many goods points as bad... [More...]
Once more, director Bertrand Blier courts controversy and the wrath of the entire feminist
movement with this anarchic black comedy. With tongue welded firmly to cheek... [More...]
You should always be wary of any film which boasts more than half a dozen A-list actors.
There is of course the chance that the script is so mind-bogglingly brilliant that any
actor would jump at the chance to appear... [More...]
For over three decades, French filmmaker Bertrand
Blier has been taunting, pleasing and surprising cinema audiences (in
roughly equal measure) with his provocative... [More...]
