Jean-Claude Carrière Retrospective Closing at MoMA June 16
/Jean-Claude Carrière made a rare New York appearance during the opening weekend of this unprecedented 37-film retrospective during which he was interviewed by GME’s Jon Gartenberg for a French film documentary.
Carrière has taken on Flaubert and Shakespeare and the lives of Danton and Van Gogh, an ancient epic Sanskrit poem and the Biblical word of God. Over more than 65 years—and counting—Jean-Claude Carrière has written nearly 150 screenplays in collaboration with some of postwar cinema’s most iconoclastic filmmakers, among them Luis Buñuel (six late-period masterworks, including Belle de Jour), Louis Malle (The Thief of Paris and May Fools), Milos Forman (The Nail Clippers, Taking Off, and Valmont), Jean-Luc Godard (Every Man for Himself), Andrzej Wajda (Danton), Nagisa Oshima (Max Mon Amour), Peter Brook (The Mahabharata and La tragédie de Carmen), and Jonathan Glazer (Birth).
Jean-Claude Carrière and Jon Gartenberg at the museum of modern art retrospective of Carrière’s films, 2019