The moving farewells in Bertrand Blier, the “goggue -vanity” of French cinema

The relatives of the filmmaker paid him a last tribute. The funeral of Bertrand Blier, the nonconformist of French cinema, took place Wednesday morning in Paris in the presence of many personalities, including Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel, Josiane Balasko who turned under his direction in particular in The sound of ice cubes (2010) et Too beautiful for you (1989).

Placed under the sign of meditation but also of the earthyness which characterized the filmmaker who disappeared at the age of 85, the ceremony brought together 200 people. It was launched by the dissemination of a montage of the most famous replicas of the outstanding dialogist that was also Bertrand Blier, including that of Gérard Depardieu, absent from the ceremony, in The waltzers : « We are not well there ? At the fresh, relaxed from the glans … and we will bandage when we want to bandage ! »

Édouard Baer, ​​Dominique Besnehard and Hiromi Rollin

Claude Lelouch, Catherine Frot, Bernard Murat, Édouard Baer, ​​Vincent Pérez, Karine Sylla, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Dominique Besnehard and Hiromi Rollin, the last companion of Alain Delon and assistant to make several films by Bertrand Blier, were also present . Albert Dupontel and Jean Dujardin praised the missing director in turn « who knew how to make his actors happy ». In front of the filmmaker’s coffin, Josiane Balasko and the actor Damien Bonnard, enlisted by Bertrand Blier in The sound of ice cubesreplayed a hilarious scene from Buffet froid, That of the metro between Michel Serrault and Gérard Depardieu.

For his part, Father Luc Reydel, chaplain of the artists and parish priest of the Saint-Roch parish, paid tribute to the « Goggal cinema, man of the verb cinema and troublemaker of culture » which by his death signed « His last provocation ‘”. Paraphrasing in turn the famous replica of Depardieu in The waltzers the priest launched at the start of his homily: « We are not well there, relaxed from the spirit ? », « Rabelaisian replica of a man who is both a goggling and with a tender heart which has experienced four generations, technicians, actors and spectators ».

Bertrand Blier must be buried in the afternoon in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris, in privacy.