Jean-Claude Carrière
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.
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7085 |
| Birthday | 1931-09-17 |
| Place of Birth | Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France |
| Also Known As | Jean-Claude François Carrière, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean Claude Carriere, Жан-Клод Каррьер, |
2001
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
5.125/16
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2019
Fifty Years Later
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Fifty Years Later
1984
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
7/1
Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and visionary director, featuring clips, archival interv...
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The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
2010
Certified Copy
7.01/447
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Certified Copy
2000
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
8/1
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Margu...
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Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2008
The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
5.7/7
A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.
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The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
2017
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
7.3/14
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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2021
Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
5.6/4
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Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
2011
Carrière, 250 Meters
10/1
A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term collab...
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Carrière, 250 Meters
2022
Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
6/1
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Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
5.9/11
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Speaking of Buñuel
2000
Buñuel in Hollywood
7/1
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Arago...
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Buñuel in Hollywood
1995
The Night and the Moment
4.3/8
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1979
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
4.3/12
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
2006
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
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2022
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
7.5/7
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
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Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2003
Gala
6/2
Tour of the life of Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova Gala from Kazan Russia, where she was born, to Davos, where she met Paul Éluard, and continues in Paris...
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Gala
1971
The Wedding Ring
5.8/6
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The Wedding Ring
1978
Surprise Sock
4/3
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Surprise Sock
1979
The Associate
6.4/9
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The Associate
2010
And the blue sky
0/0
An intimate documentary shedding light on the life of veteran Iranian actor, Ezzatollah Entezami.
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And the blue sky
2006
The Secret Book
5.5/1
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The Secret Book
1984
Vive les femmes !
3.9/16
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
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Vive les femmes !
The Arbitrariness of Desire
7/1
a doc on Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
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The Arbitrariness of Desire
1971
A Little Sun in Cold Water
4.7/7
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
2014
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
6/1
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The Mystery of the King of Kinema
2011
Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
5.7/3
A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
2016
Borsalino City
7.5/1
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Borsalino City
2010
Il était une fois... « King Kong »
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2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
5.2/4
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2006
Avida
5.6/28
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Avida
1976
The Garden of Torment
4.5/12
The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.
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The Garden of Torment
2001
Madame De...
8.5/2
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Madame De...
1964
Diary of a Chambermaid
7.063/230
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a...
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Diary of a Chambermaid
2010
Miloš Forman
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2005
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
5.5/3
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Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
2017
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
7.1/5
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Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
2014
Los chicos de la foto
7/1
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2013
En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
1/1
Denis Lavant reads long passages from Luis Buñuel's semi-autobiographical "My Last Sigh". From this text, without film excerpts, Laurence Garret trave...
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1976
The Game of Solitaire
0/0
A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death. All the evidence points to a young o...
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The Game of Solitaire
1979
The Associate
6.4/9
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2009
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
6.5/10
Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?
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Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
6/14
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, wi...
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1981
L'Amour nu
4.4/9
Claire, a UNESCO interpreter, begins a romance with an oceanographer named Simon. Their relationship is challenged when Claire receives a breast cance...
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L'Amour nu
2018
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
8.5/13
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's...
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The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
2018
Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
10/1
Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the me...
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Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
2018
The Collection
7.3/3
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2006
Un Ange dans les marécages
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Un Ange dans les marécages
1978
Photo-souvenir
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This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with decrypting a series of m...
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Photo-souvenir
2013
Professor Goudet's Lessons
0/0
Stéphane Goudet is all over the Tati box-set as the preeminent Tati scholar, so it is only fitting that he conclude the disc with a half hour lecture...
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Professor Goudet's Lessons
2018
Scenes from A Separation
0.5/1
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Scenes from A Separation
2007
Rituals
8/1
Documentary about Buñuel's Tristana.
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Rituals
1969
The Milky Way
7.1/180
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of chara...
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The Milky Way
2015
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
3/2
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Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
7.2/4
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
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1962
The Suitor
6.4/26
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels fo...
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The Suitor
2013
Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
0/0
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
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Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
2005
Une promenade parmi les ombres
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Analysis and interview with the screenwriter of Luis Buñuel's movie 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'.
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Une promenade parmi les ombres
2004
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
0/0
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
1990
Bouvard et Pécuchet
4.2/3
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
1982
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
0/0
Notes on the movie Passion
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Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
2019
Mostashregh
7/1
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Mostashregh
2014
Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
0/0
The life and the films , not excluding the reference to Domage qu elle soit une putain, of Romy Scheiner recreated grace words of people who knows her...
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Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
2002
Biblioteca Mindlin
0/0
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Biblioteca Mindlin
1998
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
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Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections hig...
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Les paradoxes de Buñuel
2026
L'Œuvre invisible
0/0
This profile of director Alexandre Trannoy is profoundly moving. But you would be forgiven for asking 'Alexandre who?' because Trannoy never completed...
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