RIP Jean-Claude Carrière

"Every writer has his own way. Mine was always to work with the director."

When the NYT did an article on Carrière in 1988, they called it The Great Collaborator. And he was. He wrote for/with so many gifted filmmakers and across language barriers - Louis Malle, Luis Buñuel, Milos Forman, Andrzej Wajda, Nagisa Ôshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Godard, etc.

He wrote Danton and Cyrano and Return of Martin Guerre ("You look true, but you play false") - arguably Depardieu's three best perfs! Actors usually flourished from his pages, which held true as he worked into his 70s and 80s.... Nicole Kidman in Birth... Dafoe in At Eternity's Gate. He hadda hand in so many classics. And when Haneke needed to shape down his epic White Ribbon scripts, he called Carrière. He was an important, very great, very witty writer.