Jean-Claude Carrière in 1999. He had more than 150 film and television writing credits and also wrote books and plays.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Mr. Brook once explained what made Mr. Carrière such an in-demand writer, whether the job was creating original material, adapting a novel or opera, or reining in an epic poem.
“Like a great actor, or a great cameraman, he adapts himself to different people he works with,” Mr. Brook told The Times in 1988. “He’s open to all shifts caused by the material changing, and yet he brings to it a very powerful and consistent point of view.”
The prolific Mr. Carrière also wrote books and plays, often collaborating with the stage director Peter Brook. His interests knew no bounds.
With Mr. Brook he created “The Mahabharata,” a nine-hour stage version of the Sanskrit epic, which was staged at the Avignon Theater Festival in France in 1985 and then made into a film. He once wrote a book with the Dalai Lama (“The Power of Buddhism,” 1996). He wrote a novel called “Please, Mr. Einstein” that, as Dennis Overbye wrote in a 2006 review in The New York Times, “touches down lightly and charmingly on some of the thorniest philosophical consequences of Einstein’s genius and, by extension, the scientific preoccupations of the 20th century — the nature of reality, the fate of causality, the comprehensibility of nature, the limits of the mind.”
His was deliberately ever curious.
“People say I am very dispersed,” he told The Guardian in 1994. “But I say that to pass from one subject to another, from one country to another, is what keeps me alive, keeps me alert.”
法國編劇讓-克洛德·卡里埃 ( Jean-Claude Carriare ~202189歲 ，多產作家…1979年將德國著名作家君特·格拉斯的小說《鐵皮鼓》改編成電影，並憑藉此片榮獲奧斯卡金像獎和坎城影展金棕櫚獎 )：This Is Not the End of the Book作者 Jean-Claude Carriare (Author), Umberto Eco (Author), Jean-Philippe de Tonnac
Oscar-winning French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, whose 1979 adaptation of renowned German writer Günter Grass's novel "The Tin Drum" won an Academy Award and a Palme d'Or, has died aged 89. 2021
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Jean-Claude Carrière, the prolific French screenwriter renowned for collaborations with Luis Buñuel and works like The Unbearable Lightness of Being, died on February 8, 2021, at age 89 in Paris. The New York Times reported his death, noting his immense contribution to 20th-century cinema as a writer, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Key Details of Career and Legacy
Key Collaborations: Carrière is most famous for his long partnership with director Luis Buñuel, writing scripts for Belle de Jour (1967) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972).
Renowned Works: He co-wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), and The Tin Drum (1979).
Awards: He won an Academy Award for best short subject in 1963 (Heureux anniversaire) and received an Honorary Oscar in 2014 for his body of work.
Style: Known for adapting complex literary works and bringing a surrealist, sharp wit to film, he was also a novelist and playwright.
Carrière died of natural causes at his home in Paris.
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A scene from Buñuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972), one of three films for which Mr. Carrière was nominated for a writing Oscar.Credit...Rialto Pictures/Studiocanal
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