Bertrand Blier, acclaimed film director Sexually Blunt, dies at 85 years old
Bertrand Blier, an acclaimed director whose film scandalized, fascinated and entertained France of the 70s and 80s with their sometimes brutal projections of the sexual imagination of French men, died on Monday in his home in Paris. He was 85 years old.His death was confirmed by his son Léonard Blier.For two decades Bliers was one of the most decorated French directors, winning the first prize in Cannes, an Academy Award for best foreign film for "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs", released in 1978, and numerous Césars, the French equivalent of the Oscar .In a statement after his death, President Emmanuel Macron greeted Bliers (Blee-Ay pronounced) as a "French cinema giant, who marked our national imagination for fifty years with his free and pungent touch".Blier launched the career of men and w...