73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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Bertrand Tavernier
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BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France - Italy
14 min.
Short film
Second sketch in a film made of other episodes directed, in their turn, by Jean-François Hauduroy, Claude Berri, Charles L. Bitsch and Bernard Toublanc-Michel.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
105 min.
Tavernier's first regular feature which placed him straightaway amongst relevant French Directors. The plot takes place in Lyon, his home town. Film noir, arising from a crime, it denounces political action carried out by extreme right wing groups. This is Tavernier's first work with Philippe Noiret and is dedicated to Jacques Prevert.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
120 min.
One of Tavernier's favourite subjects is French History. This film means not only the beginning of a feast of great tragic import for the country itself but the start of what could be called his current of historical cinema. An outstanding cast; strict, accurate staging; and, above all, an outlook on history as something that is alive make this one of his most important films.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
125 min.
This is perhaps one of Tavernier's hardest films. It places us face to face with the ambiguity of Justice. Who is worse: a cracked criminal set free by doctors or the sober judge who hides his own human misery and manipulates justice at will? A very topical subject, although set in the France of 1983, with the Dreyfus trial as background. The film is dedicated to Abraham Polonsky.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
113 min.
Tavernier speaks in first person through the character of a film director, starred by Michel Piccoli. It's not the story itself that is autobiographical but rather Tavernier's stand vis a vis reality and the need for social commitment in order to carry on. A little big film, very meaningful in his career.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France - West Germany
128 min.
T.V.'s abusive power, already pointed out in his previous film, is the core of the story here. La mort en direct is a successful T.V. program which shows people in their last throes and is watched through Keitel's eyes. His encounter with Romy Schneider will make him aware of the violent intrusion. The film denounces the media as well as showing the actress's sadness which somehow forebodes-- almost live-- her own coming death. The film is dedicated to Jacques Tourneur.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
102 min.
A minor film shot amongst friends in Lyon, his home town, with a character already of our acquaintance, l'Horloger de Saint-Paul . It tells a story of personal crises: What to do about life, about work, about love? Questions with no easy answers, which a week's holiday may sometimes help to clear up. Tavernier conceived this film in the manner of a music score and dedicated it to his filmscript writer, Jean Aurenche.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
128 min.
One of Tavernier's own favourites. An American thriller transferred to French colonial Africa in 1.938. Adultery, revenge and, in the background but at the same time quite on the surface, an obscure policeman lost in a mean town and who desires to become God's vengence and do justice his own way. Excellent acting by Philippe Noiret.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
156 min.
Tavernier's first work for television. It's a portrait-interview with writer, critic and surrealistic poet Philippe Soupault, done with Jean Aurenche's collaboration. A journey into the Surrealistic Movement in France.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER, ROBERT PARRISH
France - USA
107 min.
Written and directed in collaboration with Robert Parrish, Mississippi Blues made one of Tavernier's dreams come true. A documentary on black music, jazz and mainly the blues that emerges straight from the people in the deep South of the USA.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER, ROBERT PARRISH
France - USA
216 min.
A T.V. series containing the whole of Mississippi Blues. If music was the absolute protagonist in the original film, now the complexity and length of the T.V. series allow Tavernier to see rural life and the black South of the USA at close quarters.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
17 min.
Short film
A short film intended for internal use in a factory, a Citroën branch specialized in robotics.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
94 min.
After a couple of years making documentaries, Tavernier returns to fiction with a bright, sensual film, one of his own favourites together with Coup de torchon. A painter who lives a secluded life in the country is unexpectedly visited by his daughter Irene on a warm summer's evening. Their chats, walks together, and even disagreements bring a breath of fresh air . The old painter is sorry to see her go after this last Sunday in the country. Perhaps Tavernier's personal homage to Jean Renoir.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
USA - France
131 min.
Tavernier's passion for jazz and black music hits on its ideal story in Round Midnight. Paris 1959, the Algerian war as background, the appearance of Nouvelle Vague and black music are the setting for the story of a friendship between two very different men: an alcoholic black musician, starred by Dexter Gordon, and a young Frenchman who worships him. Tavernier here reaches the perfect melding of music being both heard and felt, in staging that closely resembles a jazz session. Dedicated to Lester Young and Bud Powell.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France - Italy
131 min.
An unusual film in Tavernier's career, not so much for its historical background of wars between France and England during the Middle Ages as for the almost Shakespearean- like violence of the characters who emerge straight from the countryside. Socially taboo subjects: incest, rape and patricide are foremost in this film with a young girl as the main character. It's Tavernier's first film with his son Nils and is dedicated to Riccardo Freda.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
134 min.
One of Tavernier's major films, this is the first part of his dipthych about war. It's 1920 and Irene de Courtil is looking for her husband, who has been missing since World War I. During her search, she happens to meet Major Dellaplane, in charge of identifying dead soldiers. Two worlds come face to face, two different outlooks on
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
105 min.
Daddy Nostalgie is one of his own most deeply felt films. Though constructed as a minor film, it's loaded with feelings that overflow the screen. There's the sick father, a daughter who decides to keep him company in his last days, and the silent, hostile mother. Even though it was dedicated to Michael Powell, it was Tavernier's own father that was in mind and it's turned out to be a homage to Dirk Bogarde.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
240 min.
30 years after the end of the Algerian War, Tavernier dares to turn the knife in the wound of this shameful episode in the History of France. Whatever happened in that undeclared war in which nearly three million French soldiers took part? He sets base in Grenoble, where he interviews 40 survivors, enlisted men, who recall, explain and relive an atrocity that marked the country. Without historical documents or flashbacks, focusing from the present, La guerre sans nom is a fierce X-ray of a time and a country.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
145 min.
Written in collaboration with a real policeman, L.627 tells an everyday story of the anti-drug squad where Lulu, the protagonist, works in the Criminal Investigation Department. This faithful portrait of a police inspector's life didn't at all please the authorities at the Ministry for the Interior. Tavernier's documentary hand filters through this fiction feature, which is a must to understand present day reality.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
129 min.
Originally, this film was going to be directed by Riccardo Freda, a director Tavernier is most keen on. However, due to discrepancies with protagonist actress Sophie Marceau, it was carried through by Tavernier himself. A cloak and dagger film in the purest adventure film style, La fille de D·Artagnan is a toy of intrigue, duels, romantic love, worn out heroes and forward young ladies. A pleasure.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
115 min.
So far, this is Tavernier's first approach to the world of adolescents nowadays. Three youngsters, two boys and a girl, need money to travel to the USA. Stealing seems to be the best way to get it. T.V. teaches them how to do it. It looks easy. They become
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
130 min.
Capitaine Conan completes Tavernier's dipthych on World War I. Here he focuses on a warrior, rather than a soldier. Capitaine Conan is in command of a group of East Army men during the decisive September 1.918 Balkans Battle at Monte Solok. Men's uncontrolled violence, the brutality of those who fight without scruples, honour, the value of friendship... These are the main topics in a film that goes far beyond its historical contents.
BERTRAND TAVERNIER, NILS TAVERNIER
France
148 min.
On February 11th 1.997, Tavernier joined a protest carried out by other 66 cinema professionals against Debré's Immigration Law. An appeal for civil disobedience was signed. Consequently, he was invited by the City Delegate Minister for Integration so that he could check for himself the error he had committed by signing. Tavernier accepted the challenge and spent three months with his son in a Paris suburbian town . In this documentary Tavernier restates his views on how lack of integration and racism
BERTRAND TAVERNIER
France
117 min.
As previously with Michel Alexandre for L.627, this time Tavernier worked with a real nursery school teacher to create Daniel Lefebvre's character, starred by Philippe Torreton. It's the struggling, radical story of a man determined to fight against bureaucracy, two-faced morality and against misery in a town doomed to unemployment. It's the story of someone who believes in life and in the future, depicted by young children, the real protagonists. The film could undoubtedly be described as militant.
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