Jean-Claude Carrière  

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Jean-Claude Carrière (17 September 1931 – 8 February 2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree.

Carrière was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of Buñuel's late French films.

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Carrière was born in Colombières-sur-Orb, France, the son of Alice and Felix Carrière, a farmer. He published his first novel, Lézard, in 1957. He was introduced to Jacques Tati, who had him write short novels based on his films. Through Tati, he met Pierre Étaix, with whom Carrière wrote and directed several films, including Heureux Anniversaire, which won them the Academy Award for Best Short Subject. His nineteen-year collaboration with Buñuel began with the film Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); he co-wrote the screenplay with Buñuel and also played the part of a village priest. Carrière and the director would collaborate on the scripts of nearly all Buñuel's later films, including Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty, (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).

Carrière also penned screenplays for The Tin Drum (1979), Danton (1983), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), La dernière image (1986), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Valmont (1989), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Birth (2004), and Goya's Ghosts (2006), and co-wrote Max, Mon Amour (1986) with director Nagisa Oshima. He also collaborated with Peter Brook on a nine hour long stage version of the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, and a five-hour film version. In 1998 he provided the libretto for Hans Gefors' fifth opera Clara, which was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

His work in television includes the series Les aventures de Robinson Crusoë (1964), a French-West German production much seen overseas.

In 2012, Carrière and Umberto Eco published a book of conversations on the future of information carriers.

Carrière also wrote comics for Bernard Yslaire and Pierre Étaix .

Carrière died in Paris on 8 February 2021, aged 89.


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