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Jean-Claude Carrière
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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 establ…
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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.
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Jean-Claude Carrière's Filmography
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L'Œuvre invisible
as Self

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
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Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau
as Self

Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance
as Self - Screenwriter

Fifty Years Later
as Self

Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
as Self - Writer
No Poster
Mostashregh
as Self

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
as Self

The Collection
as Monsieur Klein

Scenes from A Separation
as Self

Searching for Ingmar Bergman
as Self - Filmmaker

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves
as Self

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self

Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
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Borsalino City
as Self - Scriptwriter

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
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Romy Schneider, à fleur de peau
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Los chicos de la foto
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The Mystery of the King of Kinema
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En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
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Professor Goudet's Lessons
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Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
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Carrière, 250 Meters
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Pierre Étaix, un destin animé
as Self
No Poster
Miloš Forman
as Self

Il était une fois... « King Kong »
as Self (scénariste)

Certified Copy
as The Man at the Square

And the blue sky
as Himself

Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
as Self

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel
as Self
No Poster
Rituals
as Self
No Poster
The Secret Book
as Pierre Reymond

Avida
as Le richa paranoïaque

Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
as Self
No Poster
Un Ange dans les marécages
as Self

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
as Self
No Poster
Une promenade parmi les ombres
as Himself

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
No Poster
Gala
as Self
No Poster
Biblioteca Mindlin

Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
as David Goldman

Madame De...
as Le ministre

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self

Speaking of Buñuel
as Self

Buñuel in Hollywood
as Self

Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self

The Night and the Moment
as The Governor

Bouvard et Pécuchet
as Récitant
No Poster
Making 'The Mahabharata'
as Self

Vive les femmes !
as The deaf-mute

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
as Self

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
as Self

L'Amour nu
as Le professeur

The Associate
as Un homme présent à la lecture du testament

The Associate
as Un homme à la lecture du testament (uncredited)

The Tin Drum
as Rasputin

These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le psychiatre (uncredited)
No Poster
Photo-souvenir
as Prof. Henri Quissard

Surprise Sock
as Fournier

The Game of Solitaire
as Luc

The Garden of Torment
as The ship's captain

Serious as Pleasure
as Le chef d'etage (uncredited)

A Little Sun in Cold Water
as François

The Wedding Ring
as Hugues

The Milky Way
as Priscillian

Diary of a Chambermaid
as Le curé

The Suitor
as TV presenter (uncredited)

The Arbitrariness of Desire
as Himself