Born in 1939 in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, Blier was the son of actor Bernard Blier and grew up was steeped in film and theatre. He made his directing debut with cinema-verité ...

Veteran French film provocateur Bertrand Blier, who has died aged 85, made some of the country's biggest arthouse hits of the 1970s and 1980s, but is perhaps best known for unleashing the Gallic ...

In December of 1972, she and Bernard were married in Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris (she wore a white pant suit that was très chic at the time), and in July of 1973, they moved to Nashville.