Bertrand Tavernier Photo: French Film Festival UK
One of the impassioned giants of French film, veteran director Bertrand Tavernier, a human encyclopaedia of all facts cinematic, has just died at the age of 79.
The official announcement was made today by the Institut Lumière in Lyon, his home town. He was proud to be president of the organisation and worked for it alongside Cannes director Thierry Frémaux. Tavernier died in Sainte-Maxime in the Var region of south-eastern France.
Tavernier’s passion for cinema began as a schoolboy in Lyon, where he was born on 25 April 1941. He was the son of Geneviève Dumond and the writer and resistance fighter René Tavernier. In 1950, the family moved to Paris, where the young Tavernier began frequenting the Cinémathèque Française. He had decided by the age of 14 that he wanted to become a filmmaker.
Bertrand Tavernier Photo: French Film Festival UK
His love of American cinema...
One of the impassioned giants of French film, veteran director Bertrand Tavernier, a human encyclopaedia of all facts cinematic, has just died at the age of 79.
The official announcement was made today by the Institut Lumière in Lyon, his home town. He was proud to be president of the organisation and worked for it alongside Cannes director Thierry Frémaux. Tavernier died in Sainte-Maxime in the Var region of south-eastern France.
Tavernier’s passion for cinema began as a schoolboy in Lyon, where he was born on 25 April 1941. He was the son of Geneviève Dumond and the writer and resistance fighter René Tavernier. In 1950, the family moved to Paris, where the young Tavernier began frequenting the Cinémathèque Française. He had decided by the age of 14 that he wanted to become a filmmaker.
Bertrand Tavernier Photo: French Film Festival UK
His love of American cinema...
- 3/25/2021
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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