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Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière

September 19, 1931 (92 years old)
Fr. 2023. Drama by Philippe Garrel with Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel, Aurélien Recoing. The arrival of a broke painter in a family of puppeteers brings hope for the future but causes a certain sentimental disorder.
Runtime: 95 min.

Goya, Carrière and the Ghost of Bunuel

V.O.: L'Ombre de Goya par Jean-Claude Carrière
Fr. 2022. Documentary by José Luis Lopez-Linares. In the evening of his life, the French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière makes a last trip to Spain, in the footsteps of the painter Francisco de Goya, whom he has always admired.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Crusade

V.O.: La Croisade
Fr. 2021. Dramatic comedy by Louis Garrel with Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Joseph Engel. Like hundreds of children around the world, a 13-year-old boy sells all his parents' prized possessions to fund a mysterious project to save the planet.
Runtime: 66 min.

The Salt of Tears

V.O.: Le Sel des larmes
Fr. 2020. Drama by Philippe Garrel with Logann Antuofermo, Oulaya Amamra, André Wilms. The romantic joys and disappointments of a country boy accepted to one of Paris’ great cabinetmaking schools.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Bears' Infamous Invasion of Sicily

V.O.: La Fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile
Fr. 2019. Animation by Lorenzo Mattotti. To entertain an old bear, two balladeers tell him how his tribe discovered the world of men, by going in search of a bear cub kidnapped by hunters.
Runtime: 81 min.
G.-B. 2018. Biography by Julian Schnabel with Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. In the late 1880s, painter Vincent Van Gogh followed Paul Gauguin’s advice and moved to Arles, where he would create some of his greatest works.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2015. Sentimental drama by Philippe Garrel with Stanislas Merhar, Clotilde Courau, Lena Paugam. In Paris, an unfaithful documentary filmmaker discovers that his wife also has a lover.
Runtime: 73 min.

Mémoire de mes putains tristes

V.O.: Memoria de mis Putas tristes
Esp. 2012. by Henning Carlsen.

The Patience Stone

V.O.: Syngue Sabour
Afg. 2012. Mores drama by Atiq Rahimi with Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidreza Javdan, Hassina Burgan. At the bedside of her husband in a coma, a young Afghan woman tells him about her discovery of sexuality in a brothel in Kabul.
Runtime: 102 min.

Certified Copy

V.O.: Copie conforme
Fr. 2009. Psychological drama by Abbas Kiarostami with Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière. Discussing truth and falsity in art, a Florentine gallery owner and an English essayist, strangers to each other, are led to the realization that they are married.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2007. Chronicle by Thierry Chabert with Pierre-François Martin-Laval, Richard Oiry, Robin Causse. While aspiring to a career as a writer, a teenager who has just started high school discovers the world of adulthood and love.
Runtime: 180 min.
Fr. 2007. Psychological drama by Volker Schlöndorff with Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai, David Bennent. A Frenchman on his way to the steppes of Kazakhstan has trouble getting rid of a young woman who has made up her mind to follow him.
Runtime: 105 min.

Marie Antoinette

V.O.: Marie-Antoinette
Can. 2006. Biography by Francis Leclerc, Yves Simoneau with Karine Vanasse, Olivier Aubin, David La Haye. The life of the last queen of France, from her arrival as a teenager at the court of Versailles to her execution in 1793 by the revolutionary tribunal.
Runtime: 123 min.
Esp. 2006. History by Milos Forman with Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard, Natalie Portman. In 1792, in Madrid, a member of the Inquisition unjustly imprisons a wealthy young woman who has posed for the painter Goya.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2004. Drama by Jonathan Glazer with Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston. A ten-year-old boy pretends to be the deceased husband of a young New Yorker who is about to remarry.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 96 min.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

V.O.: Lettre d'une inconnue
Fr. 2002. Sentimental drama by Jacques Deray with Irène Jacob, Christopher Thompson, Joachim Bissmeier. A seductive and worldly writer receives a posthumous letter from a stranger who had loved him in secret for her whole life.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 2002. History by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe with Alexandre Brasseur, Arielle Dombasle, Florence Darel. In 1830, Victor Hugo struggles to put on a performance of his revolutionary play Hernani.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1998. Chronicle by Jacques Deray with Maruschka Detmers, Stéphane Freiss, Claude Rich. In 1914, the assistant of a Viennese neurologist falls in love with a young Frenchman she meets at a convention in Switzerland.
Runtime: 104 min.

Le Roi des Aulnes

V.O.: The Ogre
U.S. 1996. Comedy by Donald Petrie with Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach.
Runtime: 114 min.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Horseman on the Roof

V.O.: Le Hussard sur le toit
Runtime: 136 min.

Casanova's Return

V.O.: Le Retour de Casanova
Fr. 1992. Dramatic comedy by Édouard Niermans with Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa Lunghini. An aging and bankrupt seducer strives in vain to win the heart of a beautiful scholarly girl.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez. A soldier who is also a poet and has a prominent nose helps a young nobleman win the heart of his cousin, with whom he himself is secretly in love.
Runtime: 138 min.

May Fools

V.O.: Milou en mai
Fr. 1989. Mores comedy by Louis Malle with Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy. Following the death of their grandfather in May 1968, the members of a family reunite in the family estate and organize the succession as best they can.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1989. Mores comedy by Milos Forman with Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly. A marquise calls on an old accomplice to take revenge on her lover, who has just abandoned her to marry a fifteen-year-old girl.
Runtime: 137 min.
G.-B. 1989. Epic by Peter Brook with Robert Langdon Lloyd, Antonin Stahly, Bruce Myers. Five brothers and their one hundred cousins wage a merciless war against each other to rule the world.
Runtime: 171 min.
U.S. 1988. Mores drama by Philip Kaufman with Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin. The tribulations of a fickle surgeon and a young provincial girl who left Czechoslovakia in 1968 to settle in Switzerland.
Runtime: 171 min.

The Possessed

V.O.: Les Possédés
Fr. 1988. Drama by Andrzej Wajda with Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey. An aristocrat who is playing at being a revolutionary has the idea of committing a murder to ensure the cohesion of his group of anarchists.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 1986. Mores comedy by Gianfranco Mingozzi with Fabrice Josso, Claudine Auger, Serena Grandi. During the First World War, a teenager seduces the lonely women of his family's country home.
Runtime: 98 min.

Max My Love

V.O.: Max mon amour
Fr. 1986. Mores drama by Nagisa Ôshima with Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Diana Quick. A diplomat is indignant when he discovers that his wife has a chimpanzee lover.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1985. Science-fiction by Jérôme Diamant-Berger with Julia Migenes, Tcheky Karyo, Sami Frey. A man tries to thwart a mad scientist who is trying to create the perfect holographic representation of a rock star.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1985. Dramatic comedy by François Mimet with Philippe Etesse, Florence Guérin, Manuel Serra. A teenager asks a friend of her father's to read her some passages from the erotic books she discovered in the family library.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1984. Comedy by Claude Confortès with Maurice Risch, Roland Giraud, Catherine Leprince. The more or less happy love lives of a small group of friends, including a lonely obese man and an unrepentant flirt.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1983. Drama by Jacques Deray with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nicole Courcel, Bernard Haller. In a communist country, a university student is subjected to a police examination because of his faith in God.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 120 min.

The Return of Martin Guerre

V.O.: Le Retour de Martin Guerre
Fr. 1982. Mores drama by Daniel Vigne with Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon. In the middle of the sixteenth century, a court of the Toulouse parliament has to rule on an accusation of imposture against a peasant.
Runtime: 123 min.
Fr. 1982. Psychological drama by Jacques Deray with Claudine Auger, Marina Vlady, François Marthouret. A ruined princess plays on the feelings of a naive writer.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1982. Crime drama by Pierre Lary with Jean Rochefort, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Marielle. A man is drawn into a strange adventure when he discovers that his radio is picking up noises from a neighbouring home.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1982. History by Andrzej Wajda with Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau. The political rivalry between Danton and Robespierre during the French Revolution.
Runtime: 136 min.
Fr. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Pierre Neurice with Jean-Claude Carrière, Geneviève Fontanel, François Leccia. In the early twentieth century, upon learning that he is recognized as the heir to his natural father's estate, a young man becomes arrogant and obnoxious to everyone.
Fr. 1981. Psychological drama by Yannick Bellon with Marlène Jobert, Jean-Michel Folon, Zorica Lozic. Discovering that she has a breast tumour, a woman breaks off a budding romance with a divorced man.
Runtime: 101 min.

The Tin Drum

V.O.: Die Blechtrommel
Runtime: 142 min.
Fr. 1979. Psychological drama by Jean-François Adam with Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Bruno Ganz.
Runtime: 98 min.

Jig-saw

V.O.: L'Homme en colère
Fr. 1979. Crime drama by Claude Pinoteau with Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Associate

V.O.: L'Associé
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1978. Fantasy by Edmond Séchan with Jean-Claude Carrière, Vania Vilers, Bernard Le Coq. A surgeon discovers strange things when he uses a camera that seems to have a life of its own.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1978. Crime drama by Jacques Deray with Lino Ventura, Claudine Auger, Nicole Garcia. A French person passing through Barcelona is drawn into a mysterious affair.
Runtime: 94 min.

That Obscure Object of Desire

V.O.: Cet obscur objet du désir
Fr. 1977. Dramatic comedy by Luis Bunuel with Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina. During a train trip, a man tells other passengers about his recent romantic affair with a capricious young woman.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1976. Satire by Pierre Lary with Jean Rochefort, Michael Lonsdale, Dominique Labourier. A fired manager occupies his office and goes on a hunger strike.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Gang

V.O.: Le Gang
It. 1976. Comedy by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Nicole Calfan, Adalberto Maria Merli. In the 1940s, the criminal exploits of Robert le Dingue and his gang, known as the ""front-wheel drive gang"".
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1976. Mores drama by Christian Gion with Roger Van Hool, Jacqueline Kerry, Tony Taffin. In the 1920s, a young womanizing doctor settles in Canton where he discovers curious customs.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1976. Drama by Jean-François Adam with Sami Frey, Alida Valli, Romain Tagli. A teenager's suicide shakes up the life of a psychiatrist who had been treating him.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1975. Fantasy by Juan Luis Bunuel with Michel Piccoli, Liv Ullmann, Ornella Muti. A widowed lord remarries but remains obsessed by the memory of his first wife whom he revives with magical formulas.
Runtime: 99 min.

Serious About Pleasure

V.O.: Sérieux comme le plaisir
Fr. 1974. Comedy by Robert Benayoun with Jane Birkin, Richard Leduc, Georges Mansart. A merry trio causes a disturbance in the hotels they pass through.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Phantom of Liberty

V.O.: Le Fantôme de la liberté
Fr. 1974. Satire by Luis Bunuel with Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Lonsdale, Jean Rochefort. A whimsical series of unusual episodes that satirize various aspects of the established order.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1974. Satire by Alain Corneau with Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Michel Vitold. In the year 2222, a man kept in a state of hibernation wakes up and shares his adventure regarding the legalization of drugs in France.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1974. Crime drama by Patrice Chéreau with Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère. In her flight to escape her aunt, an unbalanced young woman meets a man being pursued by two killers.
Runtime: 114 min.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

V.O.: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Fr. 1972. Satire by Luis Bunuel with Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran. Two bourgeois couples and a diplomat suffer various setbacks every time they get together for a meal.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Outside Man

V.O.: Un Homme est mort
Fr. 1972. Thriller by Jacques Deray with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider. After murdering a mob boss, a contract killer realizes that he has a colleague on his tail.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1972. Drama by Éric Le Hung with Florinda Bolkan, Omar Sharif, Pierre Michaël. A young woman tries to meet her husband, imprisoned on an island for his political activities.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1971. Satire by Milos Forman with Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, Linnea Heacock. In order to understand the mindset of their daughter who has run away, a couple agrees to try various experiments.
Runtime: 92 min.

A Few Hours of Sunlight

V.O.: Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide
Fr. 1971. Psychological drama by Jacques Deray with Claudine Auger, Marc Porel, Bernard Fresson. A married woman abandons her provincial life to go live with a Parisian journalist.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by Jacques Deray with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet. In the early 1930s, two criminals become friends and kings of the underworld in Marseille.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 1970. Psychological drama by Christian de Chalonge with Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Carrière, Isabelle Sadoyan. Through the help of a marriage agency, a veterinarian marries a young woman with a large house.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Milky Way

V.O.: La Voie lactée
Fr. 1968. Satire by Luis Bunuel with Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig. An account of the religious problems encountered by two men who go to St-Jacques de Compostelle.
Runtime: 103 min.

The Swimming Pool

V.O.: La Piscine
Fr. 1968. Psychological drama by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet. A failed writer quarrels with a friend and drowns him in the pool of a villa.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1968. Psychological drama by Edmond Séchan with Jean Rochefort, Isabel Jardim, Julien Guiomar. During a film shoot in Brazil, a young actor meets two charming twins.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1968. Comedy by Pierre Etaix with Pierre Etaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan. A company director thinks he can take advantage of his wife's absence to live out true love with his young secretary.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1967. Mores drama by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli. The young wife of a Parisian surgeon is blackmailed by a friend of the couple, who discover that during the day she is a prostitute in a brothel.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Louis Malle with Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton. In Mexico, the adventures of two music-hall singers involved in a peasant revolution against their will.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Pierre Etaix with Pierre Etaix, Claudine Auger, Philippe Dionnet. Ruined by the economic crisis of the 1930s, a man goes to a circus to join a young equestrian with whom he had a child.
Runtime: 90 min.

As Long As You've Got Your Health

V.O.: Tant qu'on a la santé
Fr. 1965. Satire by Pierre Etaix with Pierre Etaix, Denise Péronne, Simone Fonder. Overworked by the demands of modern life, a man seeks a place to rest.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Diary of a Chambermaid

V.O.: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
Fr. 1964. Mores drama by Luis Bunuel with Jeanne Moreau, George Géret, Michel Piccoli. A woman hires herself out as a maid in the home of people with strange behavior.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1963. Documentary by Gérald Calderon. Study of the various forms of reproduction in the animal world.
Runtime: 75 min.

The Suitor

V.O.: Le Soupirant
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Pierre Etaix with Pierre Etaix, Karin Vesely, France Arnell. Pressured by his parents, a bachelor starts looking for a wife.
Runtime: 85 min.

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