Education:Sorbonne, Pari
Tavernier quit law school to write film criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma and other major
journals, worked as an assistant director and publicist (e.g., for Jean-Pierre Melville)
and authored a couple of books on American cinema before making his first feature,
THE CLOCKMAKER (1973)/L'HORLOGER DE ST. PAUL.

Adapted from a Georges Siménon novel (and transposed from the US to Tavernier's hometown),
it is an intelligent, studied debut with finely tuned performances, which won a Special Jury Prize
at the 1974 Berlin Film Festival, the Prix Louis Delluc in France, and established Tavernier's
reputation. His subsequent works have been equally well-crafted, displaying an affecting
confluence of French and American cinematic styles. Tavernier's other noted films include
COUP DE TORCHON (1981), a bold adaptation of Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, set not in the US South,
but in French North Africa, and ROUND MIDNIGHT (1986), a smooth, pseudo-biopic of an American
jazz musician in 1950s Paris. Separated from screenwriter Colo Tavernier O'Hagan, who has worked
on several of his films, and father of actor Nils Tavernier, who appeared in, among others,
BEATRICE (1988).

Filmografie

1963   DOULOS—THE FINGER MAN/LE DOULOS                                     director
1963   LES BAISERS                                                                               director
1973   THE CLOCKMAKER/L'HORLOGER DE ST PAUL/THE WATCHMAKER director, screenwriter
1974   LET JOY REIGN SUPREME/QUE LA FÊTE COMMENCE                    director, screenwriter
1975   THE JUDGE AND THE ASSASSIN/LE JUGE ET L'ASSASSIN              director, screenwriter
1976   LA QUESTION                                                                              producer
1977   SPOILED CHILDREN/DES ENFANTS GÂTÉS                                   director, co-screenwriter, dialogue
1980   DEATHWATCH/LA MORT EN DIRECT                                             producer, director, screenwriter
1980   A WEEK'S VACATION/UNE SEMAINE DE VACANCES                      producer, director
1981   COUP DE TORCHON/CLEAN SLATE                                               song
1981   COUP DE TORCHON/CLEAN SLATE                                               director, screenwriter
1982   PHILIPPE SOUPAULT                                                                    director
1983   LA TRACE                                                                                     producer, screenwriter
1983   MISSISSIPPI BLUES                                                                     producer, director
1984   A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY/UN DIMANCHE À LA CAMPAGNE       director, screenwriter                                                                       
1986   ROUND MIDNIGHT /AUTOUR DE MINUIT     director, screenwriter

1987   HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE           performer     
1987   LES MOIS D'AVRIL SONT MEURTRIERS                                          screenwriter
1988   BEATRICE/LA PASSION BEATRICE/THE PASSION OF BEATRICE     director
1988   LYON, REGARD INTERIEUR                                                            director
1990   DADDY NOSTALGIA                                                                       director
1990   LIFE AND NOTHING BUT/LA VIE ET RIEN D'AUTRE                         screenwriter, director                       
1991   FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN MOVIES                                              director
1991   THE STORY OF BOYS AND GIRLS/STORIA DI RAGAZZI E DI RAGAZZE     director
1992   AGAINST OBLIVION/CONTRE L'OUBLI                                            director
1992   L.627                                                                                             screenplay
1992   THE UNDECLARED WAR/LA GUERRE SANS NOM                             director, screenplay
1993   FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT: STOLEN PORTRAITS                                    performer
1994   THE DAUGHTER OF D'ARTAGNAN                                                    director, adaptation
1994   THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN:                                                                
            A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1ST AND 2ND JOURNEYS)    producer