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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blier followed Trop belle pour toi! with Merci la vie (1991) and Mon homme (1996), showcases for his then-partner Anouk Grinberg. The new millennium saw a creative tail-off, however: the all-star flop ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blier, who was born in 1939, died peacefully at home Monday night in Paris, surrounded by his wife and children, his son Leonard Blier, said. Several French personalities praised his career, noting ...