Jean Aurenche

Jean Aurenche is a Scénariste born with Pierrelatte in Drome of Provence the September 11th 1904 (deceased with Bandol the September 29th 1992).

He collaborated with Jean Bost, author of many large films of Pierre Granier-Removes iron, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean Delannoy, Rene Clément, Bertrand Tavernier.

He attends the surrealist ones, the theatrical Groupe October, binds friendship with Jean Anouilh and the brothers Prévert, Jacques and Pierre. He writes the scenario of a short film of this last, Mr Cordon (1933), first title of a catalog of films of scenario writer and dialogist which will grow rich of more than sixty feature-length films in one half-century of career. Don't the first being the adaptation of a light comedy, You have anything to declare? (1936), realized by Léo Joannon. Follow, inter alia, the Business of the mail of Lyon (1936) of Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara, the Business Lafarge (1936) of Pierre Chenal, Hôtel of North (1938) of Marcel Carné, Emigrating the (1939) of Léo Joannon and the Marriage of Rag (1941) of Autant-Lara.

In 1942, with Love letters of this last, a profitable collaboration between Jean Aurenche begins and the writer and journalist Pierre Bost, born in Lasalle, which cosigne with him dialogs of film. Associated with the writing of more than thirty films of the Forties to sixty, Aurenche leads the account in its least details, Bost writes the dialogs of them. The tandem works in particular with Claude Autant-Lara for the Devil with the body (1945), the red Inn (1951), the Red and the Black (1954), the Crossing of Paris (1956), Franciscain of Bourges (1967), with Jean Delannoy for the pastoral Symphony (1946), God needs the men (1950), Chiens lost without collar (1955) and with Rene Clément for Beyond the grids (1948), prohibited Jeux (1951) and Gervaise (1955).

Highly attacked by the young scenario writers of the New wave who reproach them for being only adapters of literary works, Aurenche and Bost see their prestige decreasing with the passing of years sixty. They will return in the foreground thanks to Bertrand Tavernier who associates them with his adaptation of a novel of Simenon, the Clock and watch maker of Saint-Paul (1973).

Aurenche will only continue with the festival starts (1974), the Judge and the Assassin (1975) - whose idea also returns in Bost - and Blow of cloth (1981), all three of Tavernier which, in 1984, adapts a novel of Pierre Bost, Mr. Ladmiral soon will die, under the title One Sunday in the countryside.

Jean Aurenche signed in 1987 his last scenarios, Of war wearies Robert Enrico and the Palanquin of the tears of Jacques Dorfmann.

His/her sister Marie Berthe married max Ernst.

Catalog of films

Cinema

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