Bertrand Tavernier Movies

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of...

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script...

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three...

A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young...

Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing...

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern...

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this...

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with...

A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon in Paris as well as published a book of photos of...

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his...

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected...

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure out her life. She reconnects with friends and...

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.