Jean-Claude Carrière died Monday evening at the age of 89.
A few years ago, he told the microphone of Europe 1 his meeting with the director Jacques Tati, when adapting the film "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" into a novel.
A day that marked his life.
Jean-Claude Carrière, writer, director and screenwriter died Monday night in his sleep at the age of 89.
Defining himself as a "storyteller", he has written about sixty scripts and more than 80 books.
A few years ago, he returned to Europe 1 on his meeting with director Jacques Tati, when he was to adapt his film
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot,
into a novel.
"Show him what cinema is"
"It was absolutely decisive. This day in my life, it should be marked with a white stone. For the first time, I push the door of a cinema production house, rue Dumont d'Urville, in Paris I was then received by Tati, who was a very, very great character and I was just 25 years old ", he confided.
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Jean-Claude Carrière then let himself be surprised by the director.
"All of a sudden he looks at me and he says to me 'but what do you know about cinema yourself?'. So I say to him, 'Mr. Tati, I go to the cinema three times a week, I have seen all your films more than four times' ... And he said to me 'no no that's not what I mean, what do you know about how to make a film?' And there I tell him 'well I know nothing sir' ", Jean-Claude Carrière had remembered, smiling.
Jacques Tati then called Suzanne Baron, who had notably edited the film
Le Tambour
: "And there, he told her this incredible sentence: 'Take this young man and show him what cinema is" ".