FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2015, file photo, Director Bertrand Tavernier poses with his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievements after the award ceremony at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
Acclaimed French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has died at the age of 79, according to French media.
(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)PARIS โ French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, who directed acclaimed movies such โA Sunday in the Country,โ โCaptain Conanโ and โThe Judge and the Assassin,โ has died, according to his family.
Tavernier was married to the late French-Irish screenwriter Claudine OโHagan, better known as Colo Tavernier, from 1965 to 1980.
They had two children together: writer Tiffany Tavernier and director and actor Nils Tavernier.