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 megastar Gerard Depardieu on the world.
Blier shocked France and launched Depardieu's career in 1974 with "Les Valseuses", a subversive tale about a pair of joyriding young thugs on a sex and crime spree across the country.
