The son of actor Bernard Blier, he gave Gérard Depardieu his big break in 1974 with the cult film Les Valseuses (French for “the waltzers” but also a slang term for testicles), a hugely ...

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 ...

Born in 1939 in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, Blier was the son of actor Bernard Blier and grew up was steeped in film and theatre. He made his directing debut with cinema-verité ...

Its success also brought Blier out of the shadow of his father, the postwar acting great Bernard Blier. A parable of male unease at women's liberation, many at the time found "Les Valseuses ...