Bertrand Tavernier

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Nationality: French
Birthdate: 04/25/1941
Birthplace: Lyon, France

biography

Tavernier quit law school to write film criticism for CAHIERS DU CINEMA and other major journals, worked as an assistant director and publicist (e.g., for Jean-Pierre Melville) and authored a couple of books on American cinema before making his first feature, "The Clockmaker" (1973). Adapted from a Georges Simenon novel (and transposed from the USA to Tavernier's home town), it is an intelligent, studied debut with finely-tuned performances, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1974 Berlin Film Festival, the Prix Louis Delluc in France, and established Tavernier's reputation. His subsequent Continued

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milestones

Year
Milestone
1960 
Hired by Jean-Pierre Melville as assistant director on "Leon Morin, prete"
 
Wrote for the film journals Cinema, Cahiers du Cinema, and Positif in the 1960s
1961 
Became press officer to producer Georges de Beauregard
1963 
Directorial debut with sketch for film "Les Baisers"
1965 
Worked with Pierre Rissient as freelance publicist
Continued

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