An award-winning French filmmaker, he won an Oscar for “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs.” But he divided audiences with explorations of misogyny and the male sexual imagination. By Adam Nossiter Bertrand ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...