Death of Bertrand Blier: this famous actress with whom he had a son

This Tuesday, January 21, Bertrand Blier's entourage announced his death at the age of 85. In the 90s, the director of Going Places shared the life of an actress, 24 years his junior.

© AGENCY/BESTIMAGE Bertrand Blier received the César for Best Film for Too Beautiful for You in 1990.

IN BRIEF

• Bertrand Blier, French director, died at the age of 85, leaving behind a career marked by cult films such as Going Places.
• The filmmaker shared the life of a famous actress.
• In the 90s, the couple had a son named Leonard, one of Bertrand Blier's three children.

Day of mourning on this Tuesday, January 21. Bertrand Blier passed away. He was 85 years old. The announcement of his death was revealed by his entourage to our colleagues at AFP. It is therefore a big name in French cinema who has bowed out. In 1974, the director had caused a scandal with his now cult filmLes Valseuses. On the bill: Patrick Dewaere, Miou Miou and Gérard Depardieu, whom he would direct eight times in total.

Other successes would mark his career, such as Tenue de soirée, with Michel Blanc, but also La femme de mon pote and Trop belle pour toi with Thierry Lhermitte and Josiane Balasko. If Bertrand Blier's cinema career was rich, his romantic life was marked by his love story with a famous French actress.

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Death of Bertrand Blier: in a relationship with an actress he directed

After having been married for the first time at the age of 20 with a woman unknown to the general public, Bertrand Blier married Catherine Florin for the second time. He became a father for the first time with the birth of his daughter, Béatrice.

In the 90s, the director fell under the spell of a famous actress, Anouk Grinberg, 24 years his junior. The couple then welcomed a boy named Léonard. With the mother of his second child, Bertrand Blier will shoot three films: Merci la vie (1991), One, two, three, sun (1993) and My man (1996).

For several years, the filmmaker shared the life of another actress: the actress Farida Rahouadj, whom he directed in Convoi Exceptionnel in 2019. The couple had a daughter, Leïla.

Death of Bertrand Blier: when Anouk Grinberg denounced Gérard Depardieu's behavior…

Anouk Grinberg is one of the actresses who decided to denounce sexual assaults in the 7th art. On several occasions, she publicly returned to the conditions of filming of Jean Becker's filmLes Volets verts (2022) with Gérard Depardieu. “What people saw in Complément d'Enquête (on Depardieu), is pretty much soft compared to what I saw on Les Volets verts, and I'm not the only one, we all saw it, we all heard it […] From morning to night, we were entitled to his filth“, the 61-year-old actress had declared AFP last March.

“Everyone who has worked with Depardieu knows that he attacks women“, had also estimated Anouk Grinberg in the columns of the magazine Elle, denouncing the “deafening silence” of the film world.