Jean Aurenche

Jean Aurenche 19031992 was a French screenwriter During his career he wrote 80 films for directors such as René Clément Bertrand Tavernier Marcel Carné Jean Delannoy and Claude AutantLara He is often associated with the screenwriter Pierre Bost with whom he had a fertile partnership from 1940 to 1975 In the 1920s and 1930s Jean Aurenche was friends with some members of the surrealist groups His sister MarieBerthe was the wife of Max Ernst and Max Ernst soon became friend with Jean Aurenche Later he even appeared in some film commercials directed by Jean Aurenche for the Nicolas Wine the Barbes stores and so on Jean Aurenche was also a close friend of Jean Cocteau who helped him publish several of his short stories in the famous NRF In 1933 Jean Aurenche codirected two short documentaries with Pierre Charbonnier Pirates du Rhône and Bracos de Sologne He later cowrote the short film Monsieur Cordon with director Pierre Prévert He soon turned to screenwriting writing or cowriting several films like Laffaire du Courrier de Lyon 1936 by Maurice Lehmann and Claude AutantLara Laffaire Lafarge or more famously Hôtel du Nord that he cowrote with Marcel Carné and Henri Jeanson In 1942 starting with Douce directed by AutantLara Aurenche formed a longstanding partnership with Pierre Bost Their method of writing together initially worked as such Jean Aurenche wrote the treatment of the screenplay sometimes based on a novel and Pierre Bost then expanded this outline and wrote the dialogue But soon both of them wrote all the script together without any clear division of the writing Together Aurenche Bost wrote several great successes of this time period often associated with director Claude AutantLara le Diable au corps 1945 lAuberge rouge 1951 le Rouge et le Noir 1954 la Traversée de Paris 1956 Meanwhile Aurenche Bost started a fertile collaboration with Jean Delannoy writing for him La Symphonie Pastorale 1947 which won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Festival of 1947 During this time they also worked with René Clément Audelà des grilles Jeux interdits and Gervaise The film Jeux Interdits won the Academy Award on the Best Foreign Film in 1952 and soon became a classic All these critic and commercial triumph contributed to make of Aurenche one of the most revered screenwriters of his time Source Article Jean Aurenche from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30