French writer Jean-Claude Carrière’s creative life has encompassed novels, plays, cartoons, poems, and short films. But it is his screenplays that have most assuredly cemented his position as one of the century’s great writers. Receiving his start in cinema in the mid-1950s by writing book adaptations of director Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958), Carrière eventually

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French writer Jean-Claude Carrière’s creative life has encompassed novels, plays, cartoons, poems, and short films. But it is his screenplays that have most assuredly cemented his position as one of the century’s great writers. Receiving his start in cinema in the mid-1950s by writing book adaptations of director Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958), Carrière eventually