Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière is known for writing, with films including Exploits of a Young Don Juan, The Swimming Pool, Sommersby. Browse the full filmography and find where to stream on sseenn.

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.

Filmography

• Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)
• The Swimming Pool (1969)
• Sommersby (1993)
• The Tin Drum (1979)
• At Eternity's Gate (2018)
• Belle de Jour (1967)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• Birth (2004)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
• Valmont (1989)
• A Bigger Splash (2015)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Goya's Ghosts (2006)
• Danton (1983)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
• Viva Maria! (1965)
• The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
• Certified Copy (2010)
• Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
• Borsalino (1970)
• The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
• The Patience Stone (2013)
• The Crusade (2021)
• Yoyo (1965)
• Every Man for Himself (1980)
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
• Chinese Box (1997)
• Godard's Passion (1982)
• The Outside Man (1972)
• The Artist and the Model (2012)
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
• May Fools (1990)
• The Milky Way (1969)
• A Faithful Man (2018)
• Taking Off (1971)
• Hard to Be a God (1990)
• Liza (1972)
• The Thief of Paris (1967)
• Lover for a Day (2017)