At the start of Bertrand Blier's new film, The Clink of Ice, a sinister-eyed man walks up to the security gates of an alcoholic writer's high-end country house. "I'm your cancer!" he says by way of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blier: ‘I’ve always enjoyed shocking the bourgeois’ - William KAREL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Bertrand Blier, who has died aged ...

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 ...

Director of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and Trop Belle Pour Toi! who saw his role as ‘attacking society: hard, repeatedly and below the belt’ Bertrand Blier, who has died aged 85, had the appearance of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Provocative French filmmaker Bertrand Blier, who scored hits with transgressive comedies featuring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle ...