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Bertrand Tavernier , born the April 25th 1941 with Lyon, is a Réalisateur, Scénariste, producing French.

Biography

Its origins (wire of the writer and resistant Lyons Rene Tavernier clandestinely publishing large feathers such Aragon), its beginnings in the cinema as assistant of Jean-Pierre Melville ( Leon Morin, priest ), realizer of short films and finally press attaché and his work of historian of the cinema deeply influenced its style. He is too often regarded as “traditional” by inevitable (and vain) comparison with the heads of file of the New wave and by a certain critic anglo-saxonne.

He dissociates realizers of his generation by the will to give again a paramount place with a narration passed to the trap door at the end of the Années 1950. He thus gives again their chance with large scenario writers and dialogists remained on the edge of the way, mainly with Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost (“pet peeves”, with the realizer Claude Autant-Lara, of a François Truffaut intransigent). Large film enthusiast, it makes redécouvrir authors as Jean-Devaivre of which it will adapt the autobiography in his film Laissez-passer. Sometimes if the taste carries it towards “films to costumes”, it never moves away from the concerns of our time and its art remains deeply enraciné in our époque.
Bertrand Tavernier expresses, with the liking of his films, his aversion against the injustices, his engagement against the war, racism, the devastations of colonialism, the capital punishment and his combat against through even the consequences of our contemporary companies: delinquency, violence, unemployment, miseries physical and emotional, drug, AIDS…
Certain more alleviated or nostalgic feature-length films are, on several occasions, impregnated figure of the father or time which passes and which one cannot retain ( One Sunday in the countryside , Daddy nostalgia ).

For the realizer, the music like is not never plated and always forms a unit with the image. In its first films particularly, an important music scene punctuates film and announces an imminent drama: a street singer ( the judge and the assassin ), the scene of the guinguette ( One Sunday in the countryside ) (...).
Its professional friendships and fidelities give also a tone to its cinema: Aurenche and Bost but also Alain and Sardinian Philippe, Marc Perrone, Philippe Noiret, Philippe Torreton and, recently, Jacques Gamblin…
In a paradoxical way, its catalog of films, on the subjects and the very diverse treatments, remains pulled about between its defense for a French extremely and independent cinema and its fascination for a certain culture nord-américaine.
Producer (his company names Little Bear), it carries on also associative activities (president of the Institut Light, with Lyon).

Bertrand Tavernier is the father of the Nile Tavernier, also realizer but also comédien.
He knew with the college Volker Schlöndorff, become since godfather of his son.

Catalog of films

The realizer

The scenario writer

Films written but not carried out by Bertand Tavernier
  • 1967: Captain Singrid of Jean Leduc
  • 1967: Coplan opens fire in Mexico City (Between the redes) of Riccardo Freda

The actor

The writer and film enthusiast

In 1995, it publishes with Jean-Pierre Coursodon 50 years of American cinema (ED. Slow train), considered per many film enthusiasts the French bible on this sujet.
It takes part in the weekly radio program Cinéfilms on France Inter

Principal rewards

External bonds

  • Biography (stopped at 1999) on the site of Little bear , its production company.
  • interesting File and biography.
  • Interview of the realizer on the site of Dvdclassik.
  • Résiliation of its subscription UFC That To choose to protest against the support brought to the global license by UFC within the framework of law DADVSI of restriction of the digital rights.
  • List of the article devoteds to with Bertrand Tavernier
  • List of the articles written by Bertrand Tavernier

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