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  Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (Bas-Bh)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Bresslaw is an English cockney comedy actor.
Bernard Cribbins is a British comedy actor and singer.
He was born in 1931 at Reims, Marne and died in 2002.
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 Encyclopedia: Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier (11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French actor.
Buenos Aires (Good Air in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America.
Bertrand Blier (born March 14, French screenwriter and film director.
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 DVD Times - Buffet Froid
Notre Histoire, for example, was a study of love and freedom from Blier but was set against the stories told by a nymphomaniac and the hundreds of men she had slept with, all of whom gather in one house to remember the moment that being with her had finally made them feel alive.
A typical Blier film is usually filled with more ideas that the plot could possibly cope with and although many appear to get lost, a key part of Blier's work is the loose adaptation of a frantic script without much thought for the ability of the viewer to stay with it.
Feeling lost with a Blier film will not be a unique experience to anyone but in Buffet Froid as in his other films, that he manages to hold onto his ideas amid startling and often dazzling cinematography and writing is all that is needed to justify Blier's place amongst the greatest of writers and directors.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=12038   (1517 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Buffet Froid: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An unemployed man is enmeshed in a nightmarish situation that plays itself out with unapologetic illogic: he falls in with shady characters like his wife's killer, a corrupt police chief, and a young beauty who is definitely not what she seems.
Like all Blier romps (most notably the scatological Going Places and Ménage), Buffet Froid is definitely not for everyone, and Gérard Depardieu fans might feel especially cheated by his passive performance.
Blier made a film absolutely free of any kind of convencionalism, intelligent humor, clever sense of absurd and mesmerizing laberyntic journey into the underworld, the acid view about a policeman who decides breaking the rules together with two men who are under a high stress anguish by different reasons.
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 Buffet Froid
Another is Bernard Blier (the director's father), as an unflappable chief of police who shares an eerily empty high-rise apartment block with Depardieu and his wife.
Blier makes a virtue of the fact that its world is strangely empty and half-realised, and of the fact that the narrative is full of lapses and playful juxtapositions which lead the viewer down many false trails and disengage them from conventional storytelling.
Blier père is also very effective and has some great moments of his own along the way.
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 Bertrand Blier (1939 - )
Bertrand Blier (born March 14, 1939) is a French screenwriter and film director.
Structured as an absurdly hilarious nightmare, Buffet Froid has a logic that is both twisted and stark: a husband befriends his wife's murderer, a high-ranking official plans his own assassination, a lost knife is found in the belly of a subway passenger.
Together with the Chief of Police and a murderer who is afraid of the dark, Depardieu is drawn into an inescapable complicity of murder, treachery and paranoia which draws him closer and closer to a fatetul end.
www.jahsonic.com /BertrandBlier.html   (471 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Buffet Froid (1979)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Writer/director Blier constructs this farcical adventure out of bits and pieces of thrillers past, upending the clichés and confounding audience expectations at every opportunity.
Blier's characters live in a world of physical and moral emptiness, where the coldness of the "monstrous, soulless city" turns its inhabitants into casual killers preying on resigned, relieved victims.
Blier's ideas have merit, and Depardieu does a fine job as the bewildered, unassumingly violent Alphonse.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=2862   (956 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Buffet Froid: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From the stark first scene in the subway at la defense to the equally cold winter countryside of france, blier shows us a less than saccharine version of his native country.
The central character is the only warm person and though flawed, remains a pawn in the calculating game played by the lustrous carole bouquet, fresh from bunuel's "that obscure object of desire".
Quirky blier humour abounds, more of which can be sampled in "tenue de soiree", and depardieu tries to negotiate the kafka-esque plot with his trademark passionate performance.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305037221   (317 words)

  
 Needcoffee.com DVD Review: Finding Nemo (2003)
Trouble is, her husband, Maurice (Blier), has the look about him of the terminally put-upon.
Their characters are both tormented in their own particular ways, and most of it, as I stated before, having to do with love.
Blier's character for his wife and Jouvet's character for his son and for the love he does not have.
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 Bob Deblier's Homepage - Unlinked Persons
From the timeframe, it seems possible that this is the same person as Jean de Blier who moved to Valognes, i.e.
daughter of Charles Blier and Yolande Harnois, married to Serge Gaumont, son of Alcide Gaumont and Ré Fortin, on 27 Jun 1969, St-Jean-de-Matha, Montréal
Larry Blier, born 30 Oct 1944; died 16 Jun 1977 in Fort Kent, Aroostook Co; married to Claire Daigle; children:
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 French Culture | Cinema | Henri-Georges Clouzot: Quai des Orfevres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, ambitious performer Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair), her covetous piano-playing husband Maurice Martineau (Bertrand Blier), and their devoted confidante Dora Monier (Simone Renant) attempt to cover one another's tracks when a sexually orgreish high-society acquaintance is murdered.
Another bitter post-war Christmas is in the air as saucy go-getter Jenny Lamour (played by Suzy Delair, Clouzot's real-life lover) warms up an entertainment-starved Paris music hall audience with a swing of her ineffably euphemistic "tra-la-la," part of the arsenal of charms she uses in her breakthrough to the big time.
Still, she swears fidelity to her balding, jealous accompanist husband Bernard Blier (father of director Bertrand), who, convinced she's already hit the casting couch, issues an all-too-public death threat against the old fogey.
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 Manèges / Maneges / The Cheat / The Riding School / 1949 / film review / Yves Allégret / Yves Allegret
Distribution: Bernard Blier (Robert), Simone Signoret (Dora), Jacques Baumer (Louis), Jane Marken (la mère de Dora), Franck Villard (François), Jean Ozenne (Eric), Laure Diana (Hélène), Mona Dol (l’infirmière)
Bernard Blier is perfect in the role of the husband who is incapable of seeing his wife’s faults until they are pointed out to him by the venomous tongue of his mother-in-law – a part which allows Blier to give one of his darkest and most introspective performances.
As the seductive but manipulative wife, Simone Signoret could not have been bettered, and her masterful portrayal of a heartless villainess is evocative of her later, more celebrated, film roles, most notably as Nicole in Clouzot’s
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 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : En Legitime Defense : Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bernard Blier plays a gendarme and Philipe Nicaud co-stars as Blier's bartender buddy in E...
Bernard Blier plays a gendarme and Philipe Nicaud co-stars as Blier's bartender buddy in En Legitime Defense.
Blier endeavors to convince Nicaud to turn himself over to the authorities, and at the same time struggles to save his pal from mob retaliatio...
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/121592/moviemain.jhtml   (141 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Quai des Orfèvres: The Criterion Collection
This doesn't sit so well with her husband, Maurice (Bernard Blier), a covetous cuckold who lives in perpetual suspicion of his wife's possible infidelities.
What's wonderful about Clouzot's film, however, is how the director undercuts the audience's suspicions of Jenny with an early scene in which she professes to her friend, and surreptitious lesbian admirer, Dora (an impossibly glamorous Simone Renant), that she could never betray husband: "Maurice is my flame.
As hilariously embodied by a balding and waddling Blier, Maurice is the Schlub of Schlubs.
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 Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Laura Antonelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A startlingly moving drama, a provocative tale that raises the age-old question of the value of feminine loveliness, and the cost of not meeting that standard of beauty.
This Cannes Film Festival Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a professional soldier, cavalry officer Bernard Giraudeau, whose appointment to a remote outpost interrupts his affair with a beautiful married woman (Antonelli).
Melodram von Ettore Scola Italien 1862: Der adrette Offizier Giorgio (Bernard Giraudeau) verzehrt sich in einer entlegenen Garnison nach seiner fernen Geliebten Clara (Laura Antonelli).
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 Restored French thriller is a dazzling film noir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The film, which has been restored with new subtitles and is having its first American release in decades, is a dazzling film noir that's sure to enhance Clouzot's already substantial reputation here, and should create a demand for the re-release of his other unseen masterpieces.
Originally shown in the United States as "Jenny Lamour," that title character (Suzy Delair) is an ambitious, vain singer/actress married to her jealous piano accompanist (Bernard Blier, father of director Bertrand Blier).
The great Jouvet is worth the price of admission, but Clouzot matches his scene-stealing comic weariness with terrific work by Delair and Blier, and cushions his trio of stars with some of France's finest character actors.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/110378_quai28q.shtml   (695 words)

  
 Le Grand restaurant
Distribution: Louis de Funès (Monsieur Septime), Bernard Blier (Le commissaire divisionnaire), Maria-Rosa Rodriguez (Sophia), Venantino Venantini (Henrique), Roger Caccia (Le pianiste), Juan Ramírez (Le général), Noël Roquevert (Le ministre), Folco Lulli (Le président Novales)
Although the plot and dialogue are less satisfactory than some of de Funès’ other films, the great comic actor is on fine form and gives one of his most enjoyable performances.
Here, he stars with Bernard Blier, another great actor who is renowned for playing the tough straight man in a vast range of comic films.
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 DVD Review - Quai Des Orfevres (The Criterion Collection)
Starring: Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin, Rene Blancard, Jean Daurand, Pierre Larquey, Robert Dalban
We meet an apparently happy married couple, Maurice (Bernard Blier) and Jenny Martineau (Suzy Delair) who are both performers, her a singer and he a piano player.
He was apparently vicious with his actors, a they seem to recall in a creepy way, seeming to laugh at the abuse they went through, but this is a nice, simple look at the man and how he works.
www.dvdcollectorshaven.ca /DVD_Review.aspx?d=89034&u=1   (1563 words)

  
 Movie Review
BUFFET FROID, sometimes called "Cold Cuts", is a French surreal comedy written and directed by Bertrand Blier in 1979.
The second main character is Morvandieu (Blier), a police inspector who hears Tram's confession.
The last one, played by Jean Carmet is a serial killer always looking for a woman to murder.
www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=107222   (126 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Buffet Froid: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bertrand Blier was coming down from his Oscar win for Get Out Your Handkerchiefs when he directed Buffet Froid.
Starring the prolific Gérard Depardieu as Alphonse Tram, the film also stars Jean Carmet (who later won a Cesar award for Best Supporting Actor in Les Miserables) and Bernard Blier, the director's father.
Actors & Actresses > (B) > Blier, Bernard
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305037221   (892 words)

  
 neumu [ cinematronic ]
Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin
Carefree chanteuse Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) and her husband/accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) may be connected with the killing of a slimy old movie financier with a hankering for pretty young things.
Even the couple's neighbor — beautiful, sexually ambiguous photographer Dora (Simone Renant) — is a suspect when the relentless detective Inspector Antoine (the distinguished Louis Jouvet) is on the case.
www.neumu.net /cinematronic/dvd/cinema_dvd_00328.shtml   (237 words)

  
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Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Jean Daurand
This behavior results in intense jealousy on the part of her husband and musical partner, Maurice Martineau (Bernard Blier), jealousy that mounts until he finally sets out after one of Jenny's potential seducers in a murderous rage--only to find that someone else beat him to the job.
In a successful structural quirk, it is only at this late point in the film that its purported lead character--world-weary police inspector Antoine (Louis Jouvet)--enters the picture.
www.citypaper.com /film/print_review.asp?id=3018   (177 words)

  
 quai
Marguerite is the ambitious daughter of a laborer who changed her name for showbiz to Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair, the mistress and muse of the director).
She's a music hall chanteuse married to her jealous piano-accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier, the father of director Bertrand Blier).
Maurice had a promising future in the conservatoire, but threw it all away for her.
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 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73 March 29 in History
Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73 March 29 in History
Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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 DigiGuide : Bernard Blier
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 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Bernard Blier : Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Born in Argentina to French parents, Bernard Blier studied acting at the Paris conservatory.
After a short theatrical career, Blier made his movie bow in 1937's Trois-Six-Neuf.
Following World War II service, the prematurely balding Blier became established as something of a "new Raimu", distinguishing himself in an exhausting v...
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 dOc DVD Review: Quai des Orfèvres (1947)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It's probably too reductive and excessively Anglocentric to refer to Henri-Georges Clouzot simply as the French Hitchcock, but the comparisons for an English-speaking audience may be inevitable; however Clouzot gets down and dirty in a manner that Hitch never did, especially in this movie.
It's a handsome film noir from the land that coined the term, and it's a completely entertaining and fascinating bit of filmmaking.
If you're fans of the genre (and if you're not, there's something wrong with you), you'll find many of the classic noir elements here—this time it's Suzy Delair as the tarty, sexually rapacious wife, a cabaret singer who has taken the stage name Jenny Lamour; Bernard Blier is a French Elisha Cook Jr.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5542   (785 words)

  
 The Films of Henri-Georges Clouzot
Though his reputation rests primarily on two films, Diabolique and The Wages of Fear, director Henri-Georges Clouzot established himself as a consummate professional throughout his career, dabbling in a variety of genres with a consistently skewed, often cynical world view.
Under the stage name of Jenny Lamour, dance hall performer Margueritte (Rocco and His Brothers' Suzy Delair) constantly stokes the passions of her often jealous husband, Maurice (Bernard Blier, father of director Bertrand).
The lecherous patrons of the club display more than a passing interest in the full-figured chanteuse as well, particularly one pawing old man whose elegant jackets disguise a wolf underneath.
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 DVD Empire - Item - Buffet Froid / DVD-Video
Oh yes, it's an art film but it's also a thriller, a comedy, a drama and a weird experimental flick.
Depardieu is at his best and the lates Jean Carmet and Bernard Blier give breathtaking perfomances.
This is, of course, not for Sly or Schwarzie fans but if you're a bit open-minded and if subtitles (excellent, by the way) don't mind you too much, that's a must-have.
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