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To interview the screenwriter of The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1987), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and most of Luis Buñuel’s French oeuvre requires me to find a discreet Parisian archway that opens on to a charming tree-shaded courtyard. On one side is a white house with a large terrace on which stands Jean-Claude Carrière, the man who describes film as “the first language successfully invented by man”.
In France Carrière is hailed as a leading intellectual who happens to have one of the most distinguished lists of screenwriting credits in the world. Mention him to a French person and they are likely to talk about his 1996 book Conversations sur l’invisible, his exploration of the frontiers of science or his theatrical partnership with Peter Brook. Where another writer might have been typecast for life as a surrealist following a collaboration with Buñuel on The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Carrière ....

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