Carrière was born in Colombières-sur-Orb in southwestern France on 17 September 1931.[2][3] His family worked as vintners, and his parents subsequently moved to Montreuil, in the suburbs of Paris, in 1945 to start a coffeehouse.[2][4] Carrière was a gifted student,[2] and attended Lycée Lakanal before studying literature and history at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud,[3][4] a grande école.[2] He went on to publish his first novel, Lézard, in 1957 at the age of 26.[2][3] Consequently, he was introduced to Jacques Tati,[5] who employed Carrière to write novels based on his movies.[3][6]
Carrière co-founded La Fémis, the French state film school, in 1986.[3] He taught screenwriting there,[3] and served as its president for ten years.[14] He collaborated with Peter Brook on a nine hour long stage version of the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, and a five-hour film version.[2] He also provided the libretto for Hans Gefors' fifth opera Clara, which was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1998.[15] He was credited as a script consultant in The White Ribbon, which won the Palme d'Or in 2009.[3]
Later life and death
Carrière and Umberto Eco published This Is Not the End of the Book in 2012, a book of conversations on the future of information carriers.[16] Carrière also wrote comics for Bernard Yslaire and Pierre Étaix.[17] He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2014,[18] for his lifetime work in writing approximately 80 screenplays, as well as his essays, fiction, translations and interviews.[2]
Carrière died in his sleep on 8 February 2021 at his home in Paris[2] of natural causes.[4][6]
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^Mälhammar, Åsa. Report from Stockholm, Sweden. Opera, October 2001, Vol 52 No.10, p1247.
^Clee, Nicholas (27 May 2012). "This is Not the End of the Book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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^ a b cMcGilligan, Patrick (2010). Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520251052.
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^"WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021. (Bulletin #3)
^ a b c d e fThomson, David (2014). The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 163. ISBN 9780375711848.
^Stephen Thrower, Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco (2015)
^Stephen Thrower, Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco (2015)
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^de Baroncelli, Jean (7 May 1979). ""Retour a la bien-aimée" de Jean-François Adam". Le Monde. Paris. Retrieved 9 February 2021. (in French)
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^"C'était la guerre (It Was War). 1993. Directed by Maurice Failevic, Ahmed Rachedi". New York City: Museum of Modern Art. May 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
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^Holland, Jonathan (18 May 2012). "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Variety. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
^Gyarke, Lovia (2 September 2021). "Sheila Vand and Matt Dillon in 'Land of Dreams': Film Review; Venice 2021". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
^Sicilier, Jacques (18 January 1975). ""Sérieux comme le plaisir" de R. Benayoun". Le Monde. Paris. Retrieved 9 February 2021. (in French)
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^Prédal 1994, p. 92.
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Bibliography
Prédal, René (1994). Jean-Claude Carrière, scénariste: l'art de raconter des histoires. Editions du Cerf. ISBN 9782204049719.
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