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Jean-Claude Carrière
Colombières-sur-Orb, France
Archival Overview
Prolific and legendary French screenwriter, novelist, and dramatist whose brilliant collaborations with Luis Buñuel (Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) and adaptations like The Tin Drum and Cyrano de Bergerac defined international cinema, winning an Academy Honorary Award.
Biographical Record
Jean-Claude Carrière was born to winegrowers in southern France and studied history and literature at the École normale supérieure. His cinematic breakthrough came when Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel selected him as his writing partner in 1963. Together, they wrote surreal, subversive masterpieces over nineteen years, including Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and That Obscure Object of Desire.
Carrière collaborated with many of the world's greatest directors, writing The Tin Drum (1979) for Volker Schlöndorff, Danton (1983) for Andrzej Wajda, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) for Philip Kaufman, and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) for Jean-Paul Rappeneau. A prolific dramatist, his nine-hour stage adaptation of the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata with Peter Brook was an international milestone. In 2014, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement.
Key Life Milestones
Release of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Co-wrote the surrealist masterpiece with Luis Buñuel, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Academy Honorary Award
Awarded an Honorary Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his monumental contributions to screenwriting.
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Perpetual MemorialColombières-sur-Orb, France