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Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière is a screenwriter, actor and inspiring educator with over 5 decades in the film industry. He frequently collaborated with Luis Buñuel, on Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Belle de Jour (1967) and The Object of Desire (1977), among others. He has also collaborated with film-makers Godard, Malle, Tati, Oshima and Wadja. Among his screenwriting credits (over 130 films) are The Tin Drum (1979), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and Birth (2004); he also has numerous television credits. Carrière has a reputation as a writer who enjoys tackling the unreality in reality, as one who takes on ‘unfilmable’ projects, and while making them accessible to the audience, he enjoys challenging them. He helped restructure La Fémis, the French state film school, and served as its president for many years.