Bertrand BlierFilmography

Les Côtelettes

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet, Farida Rahouadj, Catherine Hiegel, Hammou Graia

Synopsis: Well into his sixties, iconoclast director Bertrand Blier continued to provoke Cannes audiences with this absurdist sex comedy in 2003. Les Côtelettes profiles the antics of two aging friends/antagonists who battle for the affections of one's maid. Leonce (Philippe Noiret) and Potier (Michel Bouquet Read More

Les Acteurs

Crew: Director

Actors: André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The son of actor Bernard Blier, director Bertrand Blier is known throughout France for his documentaries and dark depictions of sex and its impact on society. Though his influences and personal opinions clearly shine through, Les Acteurs is a satirical take on the ups, downs, and numerous Read More

Mon Homme

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

Dead Tired

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual role. In the first role Blanc plays himself as an exhausted actor. He has been doing too much TV and too many movies. Odd things begin to happen and Blanc becomes convinced Read More

Un, Deux, Trois Soleil

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Myriam Boyer, Olivier Martinez

Synopsis: This experimental drama is something of an actor's challenge: see if you can convincingly play an age range from six to thirty six without any makeup or costume changes, just by using your gifts as a performer. In this film, the role of Victorine poses just such a challenge to Anouk Grinberg, who Read More

Patrick Dewaere

Actors: Bertrand Blier, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: The Breton-born French actor Patrick Dewaere (1947-1982) was acclaimed as one of the two best actors of his generation, along with Gerard Depardieu, before his death by suicide at age 35. This documentary is an exploration of the man's life and work, featuring clips from his many films and Read More

Merci La Vie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: In this frequently surrealistic romp, a satire on sex, politics, and the business of filmmaking, two young women get together after discovering sufficient provocations in their lives to deliberately set out to wreak havoc in the world around them. Joelle (Anouk Grinberg) has just been thrown out Read More

Contre L'Oubli

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment Read More

Too Beautiful for You

Crew: Director, Production Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, Roland Blanche, François Cluzet

Synopsis: Bertrand Blier's films have explored the sometimes misogynistic sexuality of younger men, but here he offers an absorbing, funny, and moving take on a middle-aged man's adulterous affair. Gerard Depardieu stars as Bernard, an affluent car dealer who finds himself in the grip of a violent passion Read More

Tenue de Soirée

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Caroline Sihol

Synopsis: Menage begins as a comedy of sorts, but be warned: it develops into a very dark, very confusing probe into the seamier aspects of Parisian life. Gerard Depardieu plays a crude but charismatic thief, whose own gayness does not prevent his commiserating with those of the opposite sex. Miou-Miou Read More

Notre Histoire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye, Michel Galabru, Gérard Darmon, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In this confusing, surreal, and slow-paced drama that swings back and forth from strange to farcical, Robert (Alain Delon) meets Donatienne (Nathalie Baye) on a train. She tells him a story about a woman and a man who meet on a train and subsequently spend a night - only one night - in a Read More

La Femme De Mon Pote

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Coluche, Isabelle Huppert, Thierry Lhermitte, Daniel Colas, Francois Perrot

Synopsis: Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with a great-looking sportswear salesman (Thierry Lhermitte), but at the same time, she is entranced by a little chubby disk Read More

Beau-Père

Crew: Book Author, Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

Buffet Froid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Geneviève Page, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Buffet Froid is an absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. It starts with Alphonse Tram (Gérard Depardieu) discovering that his casual subway acquaintance (Michel Serrault) Read More

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton Liebman, Michel Serrault, Elenore Hirt

Synopsis: The lightly mocking title Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez Vos Mouchoirs) sets the tone for this Bertrand Blier-directed amalgam of the sentimental and sardonic. Gérard Depardieu plays an at-wit's-end husband, Raoul, who'll go to any lengths to sexually satisfy his wife, Solange (Carole Read More

Calmos

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Pierre Bertin, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Piéplu

Synopsis: Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean Rochefort) run away from their families at the same time. They indulge themselves by eating what they want to, when and where it pleases them. Trouble finds them in the form of their abandoned wives Read More

Going Places

Crew: Book Author, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Chailleux

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on Read More

Laisse Allez, C'Est Une Valse

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Michel Constantin, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This French language film is a typical action/crime film by director Georges Lautner. Serge (Jean Yanne) is a jewel thief, doing time in prison for a robbery. He was turned in by his wife (Mireille Darc), who is now the mistress of the head of the gang. The police let Serge out of prison, hoping Read More

La Grimace

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Si J'etais un Espion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Suzanne Flon, Patricia Scott

Synopsis: Bernard Blier directs and stars in this routine spy saga. A vacationing doctor is caught in a web of international espionage after his chance meeting with a medical patient in Poland. He is soon followed by a concerned secret service agent (Bruno Cremer) who warns the unsuspecting doctor that his Read More

Hitler? Connais Pas!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter