It is near Sainte-Maxime, in the Var, that the funeral of the filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30.
The director of
Coup de torchon
and
Let the party begin
will be buried near the family home in Les Saquèdes, owned by his family since 1939. It is in this place, filled with memories, that he loved to recharge his batteries, far from the tumult. of Parisian life.
According to the wishes of his relatives, his wife Sarah and his children Nils and Tiffany, the funeral will be held in the strictest family privacy, as was specified in a press release.
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Former press officer, then critic, Bertrand Tavernier has always been passionate about cinema.
His eclectic inspiration has enabled him to deliver to the public works which, over time, have entered the best anthologies of the seventh art.
We obviously think of
L'Horloger de Saint-Paul
, adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon, which around the brilliant Philippe Noiret, his favorite actor, showed in the 1970s the incommunicability between a father and his son.
Read also:
The Watchmaker of Saint-Paul, Let the party begin, The Judge and the Assassin ...
Tavernier's greatest films
Among his great achievements, we cannot forget, of course, his great historical fresco
Let the celebration begin
, which told how in the time of the regency, under Philippe d'Orléans, we could already perceive the beginnings of the French Revolution.
Unclassifiable, Bertrand Tavernier, will also have given his best role to Michel Galabru in
The Judge and the Assassin
.
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The works of his fellow filmmakers fascinated him almost as much as his screenplays.
An activist at heart Bertrand Tavernier will have fought at the end of his career with a soul never tired for the protection of copyright and the safeguarding of heritage films.
A fight, which certainly will survive him.