PERSONAL
Born September 17 (some sources say September 19), 1931, in Colombieres–sur–Orbes (some sources say Languedoc), France; son of Felix (a farmer) and Alice Carriere; married Nicole (a painter and interior decorator), December 27, 1952; children: Iris.
Addresses: Contact— The Lantz Office, 200 West 57th St., Suite 503, New York, NY 10019.
Career: Screenwriter, actor, producer, and director. Head of the French film school FEMIS, 1986—; conductor of writing and directing workshops.
Awards, Honors: Academy Award (with Pierre Etaix), best short film, 1962, for Heureux anniversaire; Best Picture Prize (with Luis Bunuel), Venice International Film Festival, 1967, for Belle de jour; Grand Prize of the Jury, best short film, and Golden Palm Award nomination, best short film, both Cannes Film Festival, 1969, for La pince a ongles; Edgar Award nomination (with others), best motion picture, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, 1971, for Borsalino; Academy Award (with Bunuel), best foreign film, Academy Award nomination (with Bunuel), best screenplay based on material from another medium, and Film Award (with Bunuel), best original screenplay, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1972, all for Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie; Writers Guild of America Screen Award nomination (with others), best comedy written directly for the screen, Film Award nomination (with others), best screenplay, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1972, both for Taking Off; Academy Award nomination (with Bunuel), best screenplay based on material from another medium, 1977, Cesar Award nomination (with Bunuel), best writing—original or adaptation, 1978, both for Cet obscure objet du desir; Best Picture Prize (with Volker Schloendorff, Franz Seitz, and Gunter Grass), Cannes Film Festival, 1979, and Academy Award (with Schloendorff, Seitz, and Grass), best foreign film, 1980, both for The Tin Drum; Cesar Award nomination, best writing—adaptation, 1983, for Danton; Cesar Award (with Daniel Vigne), 1982, for Le retour de Martin Guerre; Film Award (with Philip Kaufman), best adapted screenplay, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1988, Academy Award nomination (with Kaufman), best adapted screenplay, Writers Guild of America Screen Award nomination (with Kaufman), best screenplay based on material from another medium, 1989, all for The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Best Screenplay Award (with Peter Fleischmann), Catalonian International Film Festival, 1990, for Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein; Cesar Award nomination (with Jean–Paul Rappeneau), best writing—original or adaptation, Film Award nomination (with Rappeneau), best adapted screenplay, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1992, both for Cyrano de Bergerac; Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement, 2000.
CREDITS
Film Appearances:
Insomnie, 1963.
The priest, Le journal d'une femme de chambre (also known as Il diario di una cameriera, The Diary of a Chambermaid, and Diary of a Chambermaid ), Cocinor, 1964.
Narrator, Les cocardiers, 1967.
Priscillian, La voie lactee (also known as La via lattea, Die Milchstrasse, and The Milky Way ), U–M, 1969.
Hughes, L'alliance (also known as The Wedding Ring ), CAPAC, 1970.
Francois, Nathalie's husband, Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (also known as A Little Sun in Cold Water, Un attimo d'amore, A Few Hours of Sunlight, Un po' di sole nell'acqua gelida, and Sunlight on Cold Water ), Societe Nouvelle de Cinema, 1971.
La chute d'un corps, 1973.
Chief, Serieux comme le plaisir (also known as Serious as Pleasure ), Lugo, 1974.
Le jardin des supplices (also known as The Garden of Torment ), New Realm Distributors/Parafrance, 1976.
Luc, Le jeu du solitaire (also known as The Game of Solitaire ), 1976.
Doctor, Photo Souvenir, FR3, 1977.
Le conseiller, Julie pot de colle (also known as Julie Gluepot ), 1977 Fournier, Chaussette surprise (also known as Boum a l'hosto and Surprise Sock ), 1978.
Psychiatrist, Ils sont grands ces petits (also known as These Kids Are Grown–Ups, C'est la faute a papa, Si je suis comme ca c'est la faute a papa, and When I Was a Kid, I Didn't Dare ), United Artists/Exportation Francaise Cinematographique, 1979.
Le professeur, L'amour nu, 1981.
Le sourd–muet, Vive les femmes!, 1984.
The Governor, The Night and the Moment (also known as La nuit et le moment and La notte e il momento ), 1994.
Professor, Jaya Ganga (also known as Java fille du Gange ), Kismet Talkies, 1996.
Himself, Les paradoxes de Bunuel, 1997.
El mismo, A proposito de Bunuel (also known as A propos de Bunuel, Regarding Bunuel, and Speaking of Bunuel ), 2000.
David Goldman, Bunuel y la mesa rey Salomon (also known as Bunuel and King Solomon's Table ), 2001.
Pierre Raymond, Tajnata kniga, 2003.
Film Director:
(With Pierre Etaix), Rupture (short film), 1961.
(With Etaix), Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary ), 1961.
La pince a ongles (short film; also known as The Nail Clippers ), 1968.
(With Jerome Diamant–Berger and Olivier Assayas) L'unique (also known as The One and Only ), AA Revcon/Films du Scorpion, 1985.
Film Producer:
Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary ), 1961.
Television Appearances; Movies:
Eliphas, La double vie de Theophraste Longuet, 1981.
Cesar Pouyabere, L'ecarteur, 1982.
Narrator, Bouvard et Pecuchet, 1989.
Narrator, Eugenie Grandet, 1993.
Le ministre, Madame de ... (also known as I gioielli di Madame ), 2001.
Television Appearances; Miniseries:
L'homme de la nuit, 1983.
Television Appearances; Specials:
Milos Forman: Portrait, PBS, 1989.
Himself, Bunuel en Hollywood, 2001.
Television Appearances; Episodic:
Himself, Ombre et lumiere, 2001.
Also appeared as le commissaire de police, "A la memoire d'un ange," Sueurs froides.
WRITINGS
Plays:
L'aide–memoire, produced in Paris, 1968, then on Broadway as The Little Black Book, 1972, translation by Jerome Kilty published by Samuel French, c. 1973.
(With Colin Higgins) Harold and Maude, produced 1971.
Le xlient (also known as The Customer ), produced in Paris, 1971.
(With Peter Brook and Marius Constant) La tragedie de Carmen (opera; abridgement of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen ), produced in New York City, 1983, published by Centre International de Creations Theatrales (Paris), 1981.
The Conference of the Birds, published by Dramatic Publishing (Chicago, IL), 1982.
(With Bernard Slade) La fille sur la banquette arriere, published by L'Avant Scene, 1983.
(Adaptor; with Peter Brook) The Mahabharata, produced at New Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, 1987, published by Harper, c. 1987.
La terrasse, produced at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City, 1999.
Also adaptor of The Cherry Orchard; Timon of Athens; Measure for Measure; and The Tempest.
Screenplays:
(With Pierre Etaix) Rupture (short film), 1961.
(With Etaix) Heureux anniversaire (short film; also known as Happy Anniversary ), 1961.
(With Etaix) Nous n'irons plus au bois, 1963, re–released as Tant qu'on a la sante, 1965.
(With Etaix) Insomnie, 1963.
(With Etaix) Le soupirant (also known as The Suitor ), Atlantic, 1963.
La reine verte (also known as The Green Queen ), 1964.
(With Luis Bunuel) Le journal d'une femme de chambre (also known as Il diario di una cameriera, Diary of a Chambermaid, and The Diary of a Chambermaid ), Cocinor, 1964.
(With Louis Malle) Viva Maria!, United Artists, 1965.
(With Etaix) Yo Yo (also known as Yoyo ), Magna, 1965.
Le bestiaire d'amour (also known as The Lair of Love ), 1965.
(With Jesus Franco) Miss Muerte (also known as Dans les griffes du maniaque, The Diabolique Dr. Z, Le diabolique docteur Z, Miss Death, Miss Death and Dr. Z in the Grip of the Maniac, and The Diabolical Dr. Z ), U.S. Films, 1966.
(With Peter Glenville) Hotel Paradiso, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer, 1966.
Tant qu'on a la sante (also known as As Long As You're Healthy ), 1966.
Cartes sur table (also known as Attack of the Robots and Cartas boca arriba ), American International, 1967.
(With Malle) Le voleur (also known as The Thief of Paris and The Thief ), Lopert, 1967.
(With Bunuel) Belle de jour (also known as Bella di giorno ), Allied Artists, 1968.
La pince a ongles (short film; also known as The Nail Clippers ), 1968.
Le grand amour (also known as The Great Love ), 1968.
(With Bunuel) La voie lactee (also known as La via lattea, Die Milchstrasse, and The Milky Way ), U–M, 1969.
(With John–Emmanuel Conil and Jacques Deray) La piscine (also known as La piscina and The Swimming Pool ), 1969, released in the United States by Avco Embassy, 1970.
(With Christian De Chalonge) L'alliance (also known as The Wedding Ring ), CAPAC, 1970.
(With Jean Cau, Claude Sautet, and Deray) Borsalino, Paramount, 1970.
(With Milos Forman, John Guare, and John Klein) Taking Off, Universal, 1971.
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (also known as A Little Sun in Cold Water, Un attimo d'amore, A Few Hours of Sunlight, Po' di sole nell'acqua gelida, and Sunlight on Cold Water ), Societe Nouvelle de Cinema, 1971.
(With Francoise Xenakis, Jean Bolvary, and Eric Le Hung) Le droit d'aimer (also known as The Right to Love, Brainwashed, and Il diritto d'amare ), Twentieth Century–Fox/Lira Films, 1972.
(With Bunuel) Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (also known as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, El discreto encanto de la burguesia, and Il fascino discreto della borghesia ), Twentieth Century–Fox/Castle Hill, 1972, published in Avant–Scene, April, 1973.
(With Deray and Ian McLellen Hunter) Un homme est mort (also known as A Man Is Dead, Funerale a Los Angeles, and The Outside Man ), Valoria, 1972, released in the United States by United Artists, 1973.
(With Marco Ferreri) La cagna (also known as Love to Eternity and Melampo ), 1972, released in the United States as Liza, CFDC/Pathe/Oceanic/Sirius, 1976.
(With Bunuel) Le moine (also known as The Monk and Il monaco ), Maya, 1973.
(With Peter Fleischmann) Dorothea's Rache (also known as Dorothea's Revenge and Dorothea ), Planfilm, 1973.
Grandeur nature (also known as Life Size (Grandezza naturale), Life Size, Love Doll, and Tamano natural ), 1973.
(With Jean–Claude Brialy) Un amour de pluie (also known as A Rainy Love, Loving in the Rain, Male d'amore, and Sommerliebelei ), Lira, 1974.
(With Bunuel) Le fantome de la liberte (also known as The Phantom of Liberty, Il fantasma della liberta, and The Specter of Freedom ), Twentieth Century–Fox, 1974.
(With Robert Benayoun) Serieux comme le plaisir (also known as Serious as Pleasure ), Lugo, 1974.
(With Patrice Chereau) La chair de l'orchidee (also known as The Flesh of the Orchid, Das Fleisch der Orchidee, Flesh and the Orchid, and Un'orchidea rosso sangue ), Fox–Lira, 1974.
France societe anonyme (also known as France Incorporated, French Anonymity Society, and France Inc. ), Albina, 1974.
La femme aux bottes rouges (also known as The Lady with Red Boots, La mujer con botas rojas, La raga-zza con gli stivali rossi, and La ragazza dagli stivali rossi ), 1974.
(With Martin Walser) La faille (also known as The Weak Spot, Der dritte grad, and La smagliatura ), Gaumont, 1975.
(With Jean Curtelin and Joel Santoni) Les oeufs brouilles (also known as The Scrambled Eggs ), Columbia/Warner Distributors, 1975.
(With Bunuel, Philippe Nuridzany, Pierre Maintigneux, and Clement Biddle Wood) Leonor, CIC/New Line Cinema, 1975.
(With Alphonse Boudard) Le gang (also known as The Gang and La gang del parigino ), Warner Bros., 1976.
(With Bunuel) Cet obscur objet du desir (also known as That Obscure Object of Desire and Ese oscuro objeto del deseo ), CCFC/Greenwich/Janus, 1976, released in the United States by First Artists, 1977.
(With Pierre Lary and Huguette Debasieux) Le diable dans la boite (also known as The Devil in the Box ), Madeleine/Societe Novelle de Cinema, 1977.
Julie pot de colle (also known as Julie Glue Pot ), Davis/Societe Nouvelle Prodis, 1977.
(With Edmond Sechan) Photo Souvenir, FR3, 1977.
(With Tonino Guerra) Un papillon sur l'epaule (also known as A Butterfly on the Shoulder ), Gaumont, 1978.
(With Jean–Francois Davy) Chaussette surprise (also known as Surprise Sock and Boum a l'hosto ), GEF/CCFC/Albatros, 1978.
(With Daniel Boulanger and Joel Santoni) Ils sont grands ces petits (also known as These Kids Are Grown–Ups, C'est la faute a papa, Si je suis comme ca c'est la faute a papa, and When I Was a Kid, I Didn't Dare ), United Artists/Exportation Francaise Cinematographique, 1979.
(With Rene Gainville) L'associe (also known as The Associate and Mein Partner Davis ), Columbia/Warner Distributors, 1979.
(With Claude Pinoteau and Charles Israel) L'homme en colere (also known as The Angry Man and Jigsaw ), Films Ariane/United Artists, 1979.
(With Volker Schloendorff, Franz Seitz, and Gunter Grass) The Tin Drum (adapted from Grass's book of the same title; also known as Die Blechtrommel, Blaszany bebenek, and Le tambour ), United Artists/New World, 1979.
(With Jean–Francois Adam, Georges Perec, and Benoit Jacquot) Retour a la bien–aimee (also known as Return to the Beloved ), Societe Nouvelle Prodis/World Marketing, 1979.
Slachtvee, 1979.
(With Jean–Luc Godard and Anne–Marie Mieville) Sauve qui peut la vie (also known as Everyone for Himself, Rette sich, wer kann, Every Man for Himself, and Slow Motion ), Artifical Eye/MK2/New Yorker, 1980.
(With Volker Schloendorff, Margarethe Von Trotta, and Kai Hermann) Die Faelschung (also known as Circle of Deceit, Le faussaire, and False Witness ), United International/United Artists Classics, 1981.
Black Mirror (also known as Haute surveillance ), 1981.
(With Carlos Saura) Antonieta, Gaumont/Conacina/Nuevo Cine, 1982.
(With Christian Drillaud) Itineraire bis (also known as Sideroads ), Films de l'Arquebuse, 1982.
L'indiscretion (also known as The Indiscretion ), 1982.
(With Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Boleslaw Michalek, and Jacek Gasiorowski) Danton, Triumph, 1983.
(With Daniel Vigne) Le retour de Martin Guerre (also known as The Return of Martin Guerre ), European International, 1983.
(With Luciano Tovoli and Michel Piccoli) Le general de l'armee morte (also known as The General of the Dead Army, L'armata ritorna, and Il generale dell'armata morte ), World Marketing/Union Generale Cinematographique, 1983.
(With Marius Constant and Peter Brook) La tragedie de Carmen (also known as The Tragedy of Carmen and Die Tragoedie der Carmen ), British Film Institute/MK2, 1983.
(With Volker Schloendorff, Brook, and Marie–Helen Estienne) Un amour de Swann (also known as Swann in Love, Swann's Way, Eine Liebe von Swann, and Remembrance of Things Past ), Orion Classics, 1984.
La jeune fille et l'enfer (also known as The Young Girl and Hell and La joven y la tentacion ), Orphee Arts/Exportation Francaise Cinematographique, 1984.
(With Jerome Diamant–Berger, Olivier Assayas, and Jacques Dorfman) L'unique (also known as The One and Only and The Original ), AA Revcon/Films du Scorpion, 1985.
Auto defense, 1985.
(With Nagisa Oshima) Max mon amour (also known as Max, My Love and Makkusu, mon amuru ), Greenwich/AAA, 1986.
(Adapter) La derniere image (also known as al–Coura al–akhira and Last Image ), 1986.
(With Peter Fleischmann and Gianfranco Mingozzi) Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (also known as The Exploits of a Young Don Juan and L'iniziazione ), Exportation Francaise/AAA, 1987.
(With Wajda, Holland, and Edward Zebrowsky) Les possedes (also known as The Possessed ), Gaumont International, 1987.
Hard to Be a God (also known as Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein, Trudno Byt Bogom, and Un dieu re-belle ), 1988.
(With Nicholas Klotz) La nuit Bengali (also known as Bengali Nights and The Bengali Night ), Gaumont International, 1988.
(With Philip Kaufman) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (adapted from Milan Kundera's book of the same title), Orion, 1988.
(With Jerzy Kawlerowicz) Hostage of Europe, La Societe Cine–Alliance, 1989.
J'ecris dans l'espace (also known as I Write in Space and Vite et loin ), 1989.
(With Peter Fleischman) Jeniec Europy, 1989.
(With Milos Forman) Valmont, Orion Classics, 1989.
(With Jean–Paul Rappeneau) Cyrano de Bergerac, Orion Classics, 1990.
(With Malle) Milou en mai (also known as May Fools, Milou a maggio, and Milou in May ), Orion Classics, 1990.
(With Brook and Estienne) The Mahabharata, Reiner Moritz, 1990.
(With Hector Babenco) At Play in the Fields of the Lord (also known as Brincando nos campos do senhor ), Universal, 1991.
Le retour de Casanova (also known as The Return of Casanova and Casanova's Return ), 1992.
L'otage de l'Europe, 1992.
Sommersby (from the original screenplay La retour de Martin Guerre ), Warner Bros., 1993.
The Night and the Moment (also known as La notte e il momento and La nuit et le moment ), 1994.
Le hussard sur le toit (also known as The Horseman on the Roof ), 1995, released in the United States by Miramax Zoe Films, 1995.
The Ogre (also known as Der Unhold and Le roi des aulnes ), 1996.
Golden Boy, 1996.
Chinese Box, Trimark Pictures, 1997.
Les paradoxes de Bunuel, 1997.
The Dicing, 1998.
La guerre dans le Haut–Pays (also known as War in the Highlands ), Rezo Films, 1998.
(Uncredited) Broken Dolls, 1999.
Salsa (also known as Salsa! ), 2000.
Television Movies:
Le Franc–tireur, 1978.
(French adapter) Harold et Maud, 1978.
(French adapter) Mesure pour mesure, 1979.
Lundi, 1980.
Le bouffon, 1981.
La double vie de Theophraste Longuet, 1981.
Je tue il (also known as I Kill He ), 1982.
(French adapter) La cerisaie, 1982.
L'accompagnateur, 1982.
(Adapter) Les secrets de la princesse de Cadignan, 1982.
Le jardinier recalcitrant, 1983.
L'aide–memoire, 1984.
Les etonnements d'un couple moderne, 1985.
Bouvard et Pecuchet, 1989.
Une femme tranquille (also known as Silent Woman ), 1989.
La controverse de Valladvoid, 1992.
(Adapter) La duchesse de Langeais, 1995.
Une femme explosive, 1996.
Clarissa (also known as Clarissa—Traenen der Zaertlichkeit ), 1998.
(Adapter) Berenice, 2000.
Madame de ... (also known as I gioielli di Madame ), 2001.
Adapter Lettre d'une inconnue (also known as Brief einer Unbekannten ), 2001.
La bataille d'Hernani, 2002.
Ruy Blas, 2002.
Television Miniseries:
Associations de bienfaiteurs, 1994.
Les Thibault, 2003.
Television Specials:
(Adapter) The Mahabharata, Channel Four, 1989.
Television Episodes:
Robinson Crusoe (also known as The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ), 1965.
Books:
Le lezard, 1957.
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (novelization of the film), 1959.
L'alliance, 1963.
Mon oncle (novelization of the film), 1972.
(Translator) Le clou brulant, 1972.
Le pari, 1973.
(Translator) Harold et Maude, 1974.
Le carnaval et la politique, 1979.
(Translator) The Mahabharata, Harper and Row, 1987.
Also authored (with Daniel Vigne) Le retour de Martin Guerre (novelization of film); contributor to journals and periodicals.
ADAPTATIONS
The film Chinese Box was adapted by Carriere from his original story and released in 1997; the film The Bunuel Paradox was adapted from an idea of Carriere's and released in 1997.
OTHER SOURCES
Books:
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press, 1996.
Periodicals:
Variety, March 31, 2003, p. 20.
