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Tag Archives: Bertrand Tavernier
‘Round Midnight (1986) Bertrand Tavernier, Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker
In ‘Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner Read More »
The Princess of Montpensier AKA La princesse de Montpensier (2010) Bertrand Tavernier, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel
Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama Read More »
Death Watch (1980) Bertrand Tavernier, Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television Producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. Read More »
Holy Lola (2004) Bertrand Tavernier, Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Bruno Putzulu
The trials and tribulations of a French couple’s efforts to adopt an orphan baby in Cambodia. Read More »
L.627 (1992) Bertrand Tavernier, Avec Didier Bezace, Jean-Paul Comart, Charlotte Kady, Philippe Torreton, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police inspector more because he loves it than because it’s his job, Lucien Marquet, 35, nicknamed Lulu, spends his nights and days sniffing out clues that might lead to solving cases. Read More »
La vie et rien d’autre / Life and Nothing But (1989) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Drama, War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families’ descriptions. Read More »
Le juge et l’assassin / The Judge and the Assassin (1976) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Crime, Drama, History
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Read More »
Daddy nostalgie / Daddy Nostalgia (1990) Bertrand Tavernier, Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Drama
L’horloger de Saint-Paul / The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Crime, Drama
Michel Descombes is a watchmaker in the district of Saint-Paul, Lyons. He lives quietly, alone with his almost grown-up son, Bernard. One day, the police come and say Bernard murdered a FACTORY OWNER. Superintendent Guiboud asks Michel for help. But Michel realizes how little he knows about his son. He also starts to feel he is unable to blame his son.
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Une semaine de vacances / A Week’s Vacation (1980) Bertrand Tavernier, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Flore Fitzgerald, Drama
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week’s leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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Des enfants gâtés / Spoiled Children (1977) Bertrand Tavernier, Michel Piccoli, Christine Pascal, Michel Aumont, Drama
Account of a film director’s brief affair with a young neighbour, and his involvement in the social and political ramifications of a tenancy dispute in an apartment block. Filmmaker Bernard (Michel Piccoli), who is suffering a creative block, enters into an affair with the much-younger Anne (Christine Pascal)…
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Laissez-passer / Safe Conduct (2002) Bertrand Tavernier, Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady, Biography, Drama, History
In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get “in between the wolf’s teeth and avoid being chewed up”. Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.
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Revenge of the Musketeers / La fille de d’Artagnan (1994) Bertrand Tavernier, Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story begins on the autumn of 1654 in South France. Eloise lives in a cloister. Her famous father left her there. The young lady is enthusiastic about honour, faithfulness, affection to the poor people, and life of course. She seems powerless when the leader of the nuns is executed because she tried to save an unlucky servant who escaped from odious Crassac and his evil Muse, the Red Lady. Eloise is seized with a fit of temper.
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Let Joy Reign Supreme / Que la fête commence… (1975) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Drama, History, War
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d’Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion lead by a Breton squire (Pontallec) and of the famine to become archbishop… Description of the life of the court in this period of transition where the French Revolution smoulders.
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