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    Bertrand Tavernier

    French film director

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      • Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club. He was a law student that preferred write film criticisms. He also wrote a few books about American movies. Then his first film won a few awards in France and abroad and established his reputation.
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  2. Mar 25, 2021 · Bertrand Tavernier, a French director best known in the United States for “’Round Midnight,” the 1986 film that earned Dexter Gordon an Oscar nomination for his performance as a New York jazz...

  3. Overview. Born. April 25, 1941 · Lyon, Rhône, France. Died. March 25, 2021 · Sainte-Maxime, Var, France (complications from pancreatitis) Height. 6′ 1″ (1.85 m) Mini Bio. Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club.

    • April 25, 1941
    • March 25, 2021
  4. Mar 25, 2021 · He was born in Lyon under Nazi occupation in 1941 and his father René, a writer, was in the French Resistance. Tavernier headed the Institut Lumière, named after the brothers who invented cinema....

  5. Mar 25, 2021 · Mark Mainz/Getty Images. Best known in the U.S. for his jazz film Round Midnight, Bertrand Tavernier directed some 40 features and documentaries. He was also a noted film historian, the author...

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  6. Mar 26, 2021 · Born in 1941 in Lyons – itself arguably the birthplace of cinema as the base of the Lumière Brothers – in his youth he would seek out movies everywhere (including regular excursions to London). He worked as a journalist as well as in various capacities in the industry, notably as a publicist.

  7. Mar 26, 2021 · Tavernier was born in 1941 to a father who’d stayed true to his anti-fascist convictions during the war. He’d been the president of the Poets Essayists Novelists Club and had published a wartime resistance journal to help keep the public face of the French anti-Nazis armed with inspiration and example.

  8. Director: A Sunday in the Country. Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club. He was a law student that preferred write film criticisms. He also wrote a few books about American movies.

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