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 ...

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.

He says he can’t drink. But vet French director Bertrand Blier might be tempted to crack open a good Premier Cru given the Gallic bow of “The Clink of Ice.” Blier’s first film in five years, “Clink,” ...

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 ...

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 ...