Jean-Claude Carrière

Known for WritingBorn 1931-09-17Died 2021-02-08Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France

Jean-Claude Carrière (17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983). Carrière was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school that he helped establish. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films.Read more

Movies & web series

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves

Carrière, 250 Meters

Un film et son époque

The Battle of Hernani

The Game of Solitaire

Spécial cinéma

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

Madame De...

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

The Silent Woman

The Owl's Legacy

L'aide-mémoire

The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan

Black Mirror

La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein

Apostrophes

The Petrov File

Rituals

Buñuel in Hollywood

La duchesse de Langeais

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Tragedy of Carmen

Photo-souvenir

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel

Borsalino City

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

The Collection

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason

Gala

Bérénice

Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens

The Secret Book

Cyrano de Bergerac

That Obscure Object of Desire

The Right to Love

The Phantom of Liberty

Mostashregh

At Eternity's Gate

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Los chicos de la foto

The Patience Stone

Certified Copy

Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire

The Mahabharata

Belle de Jour

L'unique