An evening with Christophe Bier
No need to wonder or consult the oracles: he will indeed be present. We saw it all : as soon as you laid eyes on our catalog - yes, the one you’re reading right now, you searched for our friend! Well, you’re on the right page. And like these last years, he will reiterate his comical cinephile act, with his accomplice Sylvain Perret, a duo worthy of Jean Yanne and Paul Mercey. Each year we wonder how to reinvent Christophe Bier’s biography, and since we’re a little lazy, well nothing has changed.
Christophe Bier remains the same, benefitting from his secret elixir, his love of eroticism and his insatiable curiosity. If you have a question about the most transgressive, obscure, hidden French cinema, we’d want to say: ‘You should ask Christophe Bier”, since he’s an adventurer of the lost film, and the living memory of secret, shameful, despised cinema, because it’s deemed scandalous and unsuitable by respectable folk. Hence does it come as no surprise that he regularly rejoices us on France Culture with his chronicles in "Mauvais Genres", the aptly named radio show. An expert on B and X movies, he's also the director of The Dictionary of French Erotic and Pornographic Movies, a work of reference on the subject. He's not only a cinema historian, a novelist and a director, he's also an actor, for Jean-Pierre Mocky - who he can perfectly imitate - or John B. Root - that he doesn’t imitate so much. This year he can be seen in Bertrand Mandico's Dragon dilatation. Four years already and his wizardry persists, make way for abyssal cinema’s ringmaster!
