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By Nancy Tartaglione
March 25, 2021
rench filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, known for such award-winning works as A Sunday In The Country, Round Midnight, Capitaine Conan, It All Starts Today and Life And Nothing But, has died at the age of 79. The news was confirmed by France’s Lumière Institute in Lyon of which Tavernier was president.
The organization tweeted: “With his wife Sarah, his children Nils and Tiffany and his grandchildren, the Lumière Institute and Thierry Frémaux are saddened and pained to inform you of the disappearance, today, of Bertrand Tavernier.”
A cause of death has not yet been confirmed, although Tavernier’s friend and fellow filmmaker Claude Lelouch told France Info radio that he had been ill for some time. Lelouch called Tavernier’s passing, “a colossal loss for French cinema.”
TAVERNIER, Bertrand (Bertrand Rene Maurice Tavernier)
Born: 4/25/1941, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Died: 3/25/2021, St. Maxime, Alpes-cote, d’Azur, France
Bertrand Tavernier’s western – producer:
Geronimo presente par Bertrand Tavernier - 2016
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