Bertrand Tavernier

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Tavernier at the Berlinale 2009

Bertrand Tavernier (born April 25, 1941 in Lyon ) is a French film director .

Life

Bertrand Tavernier comes from Lyon and is a son of the writer and essayist René Tavernier. Together with Volker Schlöndorff , he attended the Lycée Henri IV in Paris . He first studied law and wrote film reviews in various magazines. He later worked as an assistant director to Jean-Pierre Melville and as a press agent.

From 1965 to 1980 he was married to the British Colo O'Hagen († 2020), who later worked several times as a screenwriter on his films. He has a son, Nils Tavernier (born September 1, 1965), who also works as a director and actor, and a daughter, Tiffany Tavernier (born May 3, 1967), who is a writer and assistant director.

After two short films from 1964 and a failed film project for which James Mason and Jacques Brel were intended, The Clockmaker of St. Paul was based on Georges Simenon's novel The Clockmaker by Everton Tavernier's first own feature film. Tavernier moved the plot to his hometown Lyon and added a political dimension to it. The film won a Silver Bear and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1974 . Tavernier's greatest success so far was the jazz film At Midnight in 1986 with the saxophonist Dexter Gordon in the lead role and the music by Herbie Hancock , who received an Oscar for this music . Tavernier has also remained true to his profession as a film author as a director and has published several books on the subject of cinema. Christine Pascal , who, like Tavernier, comes from Lyon, and Philippe Noiret played in many of his films .

Filmography (selection)

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  • Tavernier together with Jean-Pierre Coursodon: 50 ans de cinéma américain. (50 years of American cinema) Verlag omnibus, 1960 - 1. A. and 1995 2. A. 1268 pages. ISBN 2-258-04027-2 (French: film history constantly updated; the book received the following awards: Prix du livre Art et Essai 1991; Prix Simone Genevois)

Awards

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Bertrand Tavernier  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Lowentstein: Bertrand Tavernier: The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul . In: My First Movie . Pantheon, New York 2000, ISBN 0-375-42081-9 , pp. 156-170. ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Tavernier, Bertrand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon