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Post by Mattsby on Mar 25, 2021 16:27:33 GMT
deadline.com/2021/03/bertrand-tavernier-dead-1234721636/He was 79y/o. Great filmmaker who often came at material in personal and unpredictable ways. Coup de Torchon, his Jim Thompson adaptation, with frequent collaborator Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert, is my favorite.... but Death Watch (w/ Harvey Keitel, Romy Schnieder, Max von Sydow) is a rather brilliant, disturbingly prescient movie.
I also never knew he was once a publicist for Kubrick. He quit via cable: "I resign, stop. As a film-maker you are a genius, but as an employer you are an imbecile." |
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Post by mrimpossible on Mar 25, 2021 17:42:36 GMT
RIP.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 25, 2021 17:58:09 GMT
There's a scene - I'm pretty sure is in The Judge and the Assassin - one of his best - where Noiret says something that is Tavernier in reverse: I'm paraphrasing but:
"My father never understood it isn't "one thing" that goes wrong but a million things"
Tavernier was meticulous director and his movies work not because he gets "the big part" right but because he gets a million little cinematic details right - if you watch his best films, the way things are placed in his movies, scene construction, plot order, background information he wants you to have are all so precise - he's a kind of master of his craft. Even in films where he goes a little wild Coup De Torchon for one (his best) - he never loses his directing rigor or tone - he's never wild.........he's something like Malle in that way.
RIP
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Post by wilcinema on Mar 25, 2021 18:15:53 GMT
I've only seen one of his films, Death Watch, which was eerily prophetic. He's one of my biggest blind spots in French cinema.
RIP
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 25, 2021 18:19:52 GMT
A Sunday in the Country is really lovely but most of his films have been in my watchlist for years. Look forward to seeing more of his work. 79 is too young. RIP, monsieur Tavernier 
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Post by TerryMontana on Mar 25, 2021 18:51:45 GMT
RIP.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Mar 25, 2021 23:40:00 GMT
RIP.
Even in his work from the last decade he was still very much in top form, he came with movies that in that moment ( and now, for sure ) were scarece, a lavish period piece ( The Princess of Montpensier ), a character study that recalls American productions from the 70s ( In the Electric Mist ) and a social satire with a witty screenplay that plenty of movies these days wish to have ( The French Minister ), definitely need to see his epic doc about french cinema.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 26, 2021 1:30:58 GMT
Quel metteur en scène de talent ! Vous allez beaucoup manquer au cinéma français . Reposez en paix M. Tavernier.😪 @tyler Es-tu un fan de Monsieur Tavernier ? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 2:42:11 GMT
@tyler Es-tu un fan de Monsieur Tavernier ? I've only seen Death Watch (for Romy) - which films of his do you most recommend? |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 26, 2021 3:26:58 GMT
@tyler Es-tu un fan de Monsieur Tavernier ? I've only seen Death Watch (for Romy) - which films of his do you most recommend? |
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Post by jimmalone on Mar 26, 2021 19:01:21 GMT
One of my favorite French Directors. He might be in my Top 50 directors of all time. My two favorites of his oeuvre are the wonderful poetic, melancholic, romantic, disentchanting "La Vie et rien d'autre" set in the aftermath of World War One and "Capitaine Conan", which is set within World War One itsself. But I also like "L.627", "Coup de Torchon", "Ca commence aujourd'hui", "Le juge et l'assassin" a lot.
RIP
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Mar 27, 2021 20:03:14 GMT
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