It would take a telescope to embrace such a career.
From the screenplay of
Cyrano de Bergerac
to that of
La Piscine
, from the seven films written with Luis Buñuel to his essays on Mexico and the bizarre, from books devoted to India to conversations with the Dalai Lama.
But what Jean-Claude Carrière, who died on February 8 at the age of 89, considered
“perhaps the most important project of his life
” was his adventure towards the infinitely large.
His dive into science, undertaken with the help of renowned astrophysicists Jean Audouze and Michel Cassé.
Together, they co-wrote three books between 1988 and 2017.
Read also: Jean-Claude Carrière, genius storyteller
Jean Audouze, currently emeritus research director at the CNRS, evokes for
Le Figaro
this 35-year-old friend, who confided to him three months before his death:
“Michel and you were one of the three great encounters of my life, with Buñuel and Peter Brook?
The octogenarian laughs softly, humble in front of this testimony of admiration.
He remembers their meeting in 1986:
“Jean-Claude
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