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Bertrand Tavernier Appreciation: In French Film Maven, American Cinema Found One of Its Greatest Champions

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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAs a critic committed to maintaining a certain professional distance with those whose work I might review, I don’t often play the fan in the presence of filmmakers.

But with French director Bertrand Tavernier — who passed away at the age of 79 on Thursday — I made an exception.Knowing that Tavernier would be attending the Cannes Film Festival, as always, I once stuffed my suitcase with his “50 Years of American Cinema” — a two-volume, 1,247-page encyclopedia of classic film history — then lugged it to his hotel so that this éminence grise might sign it.

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