The chancellor of the cenacle of humor and reasoned absurdity, Xavier Jaillard, encouraged by René de Obaldia, Claude Lelouch and Philippe Geluck, remembers with emotion the great screenwriter who died on February 8. “Dear Jean-Claude, it is a pleasure for me to induct you into the Académie Alphonse Allais and of course to speak the […]
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“He was fascinated by the beauty of the cosmos”: another look at Jean-Claude Carrière
Astrophysicist Jean Audouze recounts his thirty-year companionship with the writer who died on February 8, at the age of 89. A man embodying “curiosity” that he places among “The great of the twentieth century”. It would take a spotting scope to embrace such a career. From the scenario of Cyrano de Bergerac to that of […]
Jean-Claude Carrière or the insolent charm of the screenwriters’ Cyrano
The cinema storyteller will have lent his pen to Luis Bunuel (The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie), Jacques Deray (The swimming pool) and of course to Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac). He will have let run all his life a discreet pen of a great screenwriter. Jean-Claude Carrière never had his name engraved in huge […]