The cinema was his playground, his study room.
Bertrand Tavernier is now skipping school.
The director died on March 25 in Sainte-Maxime, in the Var, after seventy-nine years of a life entirely dedicated to “cinoche”.
As a child, he is not marked by one film in particular but by all films since he sees everything, masterpieces or turnips.
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Once a teenager, Bertrand Tavernier said he preferred the seventh art to law studies.
His father, the poet René Tavernier, kicks him out.
The rebellious son founded the Nickelodéon film club and the
L'Étrave
review
, became press attaché for Warner, promoted the films of Kubrick and Godard (
Pierrot le fou
), was propelled as assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville.
He recalls this in his formidable documentary,
Voyage through French Cinema
(2016).
The passage to the act itches this unrepentant cinephile, fed on thrillers and American westerns.
From his beginnings behind the camera, Bertrand Tavernier
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