Death of Bertrand Blier: his tribute deviates towards Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey searches for her words

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, a few hours after the announcement of Bertrand Blier's death, Anny Duperey gave his opinion on whether or not to broadcast some of his productions in which Gérard Depardieu was able to play.

© Bestimage Gérard Depardieu starred in many of Bertrand Blier's films.

IN BRIEF

• Bertrand Blier, French director, died on January 21, 2025 at 85 years old.
• The distribution of his films is debated due to the accusations against Gérard Depardieu, a recurring actor in his works.
• Anny Duperey defends the separation between the work and the actor, emphasizing the importance of showing Blier's films.

The world of French cinema has lost a giant of filmmaking. Tuesday, January 21, 2025, Bertrand Blier died at the age of 85. Prepare your handkerchiefs, Buffet Froid or Tenue de soirée are all achievements to put on the account of the famous director. Moreover, a question arises currently: should some of his films be broadcast on television ?

While some are available on Prime Video, journalist Damien Gourlet, on BFMTV, wondered whether they should be broadcast on the channels. If the question arises, it is because Bertrand Blier has had Gérard Depardieu appear in eight films. The director was used to being faithful to his actors. However, the 76-year-old actor is in turmoil since he has been accused by many women of sexual assault and rape.

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For Anny Duperey, it is important to show the films of Bertrand Blier

Despite all, for Anny Duperey, who was interviewed by BFMTV, we must not sacrifice the works of Bertrand Blier because of an actor. “But we must show his films! I mean, the man, if he has turned out badly, aged badly, on a certain level, it is not for all that that we must throw away the actor and including the director who employed him!“, she declared at first.

“I mean… We deprive ourselves… In these cases, if we have to ban, for the bad words and bad gestures of an actor, in everyday life, if we have to ban all the works in which he participated… No but, then there, we still go uh… We still go very far, I, we have to separate the work and the actor from the man“, she added, searching for words to be sure not to commit a slip-up as the subject is so slippery.

Anny Duperey loved Bertrand Blier very much

In a second time, Anny Duperey expressed her great sadness to learn of the death of the director. She assured that she “adored this man” with whom she had collaborated only once in the theater, in Sorry for the carpet, in 2010.

“He had paid me one day, a compliment that had touched me étremérémém. Because afterwards, we had dinner with friends, we talked about actresses; there is something to say about actresses, the legend of the actress with her sensitivity, her lateness, her whims and everything, and I tried to defend at one point, to say: 'No, but you know actresses…', and there he took my arm, he cut me off, he said to me: 'But we're not talking about you, you're something else'. So that's magnificent“, she thus remembered.