Provocative French filmmaker Bertrand Blier, who scored hits with transgressive comedies featuring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert such as “Going Places” and “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs,” has ...

Taken literally, these movies are extremely tasteless. The fantasies under consideration are usually chauvinistic, and Blier’s poker-faced direction precludes direct commentary on their chauvinism.

Bertrand Blier, the irreverent French film director behind Oscar-winning romantic comedy Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, has died aged 85. Blier left his mark on 1970s and 1980s French cinema with films ...

The name Bertrand Blier used to mean something. In the ’70s and ’80s, the French director was synonymous with a certain brand of subversive absurdism, making wild, transgressive comedies such as ...

Bertrand Blier, son of French actor Bernard Blier, was surrounded by theatre and film since childhood. Although he did not frequent the theatre and film sets his father worked on often, he was ...

Bertrand Blier's comedy "Le bruit des glacons" (The Clink of the Ice") will open the seventh edition of the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. By Eric J. Lyman, ...