Screenwriter extraordinaire Jean-Claude Carrière will arrive in Israel as the guest of the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television, Jerusalem from January 9 – 11, 2012. Carrière will conduct master classes in screenwriting in the context of the school’s “Great Masters” program. The program gives students the opportunity to learn from internationally renowned members of the film industry such as past visitors David Lynch, Wim Wenders and Theo Angelopoulous.
Carrière’s prolific career spans several decades, with over 110 film and television screenplays that have garnered critical acclaim and box office success. He has worked with several illustrious directors throughout his career, among them: Jean-Luc Godard, Milos Forman, Louis Malle, Volker Schlöndorff, Nagisa Oshima as well as theatre director Peter Brook. Carrière’s close collaboration with Luis Buñuel inscribed a chapter in film history with: Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); Belle de Jour (1967); The Milky Way (1969); The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972); The Phantom of Liberty (1974); and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
Carrière wrote the screenplays for: The Tin Drum (1979), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), Danton (1983), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Valmont (1989). He co-wrote Max, Mon Amour (1986) with director Nagisa Oshima, and collaborated with Michael Haneke on the script of The White Ribbon. In addition to screenplays, Carrière has published a book on film: The Secret Language of Film (Hebrew translation Am Oved 1996, English translation Pantheon 1994) and he was president of La Fémis, the French state film school.
Carrière will participate in a festive screening of That Obscure Object of Desire on January 9, 2012 at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Carrière’s visit to Israel is made possible thanks to the support of the French Institute in Tel Aviv and he will be the personal guest of French Ambassador Christophe Bigot.
