Jean-Claude Carrière

Writer · Born 17 September 1931 in Colombières-sur-Orb, Hérault, France · Died 8 February 2021 · 12 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

11 of Jean-Claude Carrière’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 6 on Cineasterna, 4 on Netflix and 2 on Prime Video. Highest rated available: Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) ★ 7.5.

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.

Writing

• The Tin Drum (1979)
• At Eternity's Gate (2018)
• Valmont (1989)
• Weak Spot (1975)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• The Patience Stone (2013)
• The Suitor (1962)
• In the Shadow of Women (2015)
• Beef Cattle (1979)
• These Kids Are Grown-Ups (1979)
• France, Incorporated (1974)

As self

• Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Belle de Jour (1967)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Birth (2004)
• The Swimming Pool (1969)
• Goya's Ghosts (2006)
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
• Certified Copy (2010)
• The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
• Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986)
• A Faithful Man (2018)
• Borsalino (1970)