By Adam Nossiter Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose films scandalized, captivated and entertained 1970s and ’80s France with their sometimes brutal projections of French men’s sexual ...

Blier's 1978 film "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs," a romantic comedy also starring Depardieu and involving a ménage à trois won the 1979 Acadmy Award for best foreign language film. In 1980, Blier ...

The french filmmaker Bertrand Blier has died at the age of 85. The director celebrated his greatest success with the film "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs".

Bertrand Blier, the French director and outspoken provocateur behind multi-César award-winning comedies, has died aged 85. Famous for his iconoclastic 1970s and 1980s comedies Les Valseuses, Tenue de ...

Based on Blier's own novel, it became a cult classic and was the first of his nine movies with Depardieu, whom Blier later described as "my pet actor, my cinema brother, my alter-ego". Its success ...

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 ...