Jean Claude Carri%C3%A8re

JeanClaude Carrire is a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree. Alumnus of the cole normale suprieure de SaintCloud, he was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buuel. He was president of La Fmis, the French state film school.

Carrire was born in ColombiressurOrb, France, the son of Alice and Felix Carrire, a farmer. He published his first novel, Lzard, in 1957. He was introduced to Jacques Tati, who had him write short novels based on his films. Through Tati, he met Pierre taix, with whom Carrire wrote and directed several films, including Heureux Anniversaire, which won them the Academy Award for Best Short Subject. His nineteenyear collaboration with Buuel began with the film Diary of a Chambermaid he cowrote the screenplay with Buuel and also played the part of a village priest. Carrire and the director would collaborate on the scripts of nearly all Buuels later films, including Belle de Jour , The Milky Way , The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie , The Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire .

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