The writer, director and screenwriter, who did not suffer from any particular illness, died "in his sleep" at his home, his daughter announced on Monday evening.
He was 89 years old.
The writer, director and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who worked alongside Luis Bunuel, Jacques Deray or Milos Forman, died Monday evening at the age of 89, his daughter announced to AFP .
Died "in his sleep"
The writer, who did not suffer from any particular disease, died "in his sleep" at his Paris home, said Kiara Carrière.
"A tribute" will soon be paid to him in Paris and he should be buried in his native village, in Colombières-sur-Orb in the Hérault, also said his daughter.
Defining himself as a "storyteller", Jean-Claude Carrière has signed around sixty scenarios as well as around 80 books (stories, essays, such as his Dictionaries in love with India and Mexico, translations, fictions, scripts, interviews).
He was also an actor, playwright and lyricist for Juliette Gréco, Brigitte Bardot or Jeanne Moreau.
A book with the Dalai Lama
Jean-Claude Carrière has placed his life under the sign of "meetings, friendships and masters of life", like the Dalai Lama with whom he wrote a book or the Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, with whom he worked for nineteen years , to his death.
Bibliophile, passionate about drawing, astrophysics, and wine, fan of Tai-Chi-Chuan (martial art), Jean-Claude Carrière chaired for ten years Fémis, the National School of Image Professions and sound.
Still very active despite his age, he wrote a last essay in 2018,
The Valley of Nothingness
, and in 2020 co-authored the screenplay
for Philippe Garrel's
film
Le sel des larmes
.