Something to Offend Everyone
A look back at the career of one of the most subversive directors of the last 50 years.
When Bertrand Blier died earlier this year he had become the forgotten man of French cinema, it being twenty years since he had a film released in the UK. But, in the 70s and the 80s, with films such as ‘Les Valseuses’ and ‘Buffet Froid’ (screening this season), he was the enfant terrible nonpareil, whose films, as director Chris Petit commented, had ‘something to offend everyone’.
However, brushing aside accusations of misogyny and bad taste, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for ‘Get Out Your Handkerchiefs’ (1978) and in this talk, illustrated by a range of clips, cinema education officer Patrick Hargood will be looking back at his controversial body of work, subversive films in which he set out to ‘shock the bourgeois’.
This is the cinema of the absurd at its most outrageous, in the tradition of Buñuel and Billy Wilder. Besides ‘Buffet Froid’, we will also screen ‘Dead Tired’ (co-scripted by Blier) this month.
100m inc Q&A
Tickets £8
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