Jean Aurenche
Jean Aurenche (1903–1992) 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 Autant-Lara. 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 Marie-Berthe 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 co-directed two short documentaries with Pierre Charbonnier: Pirates du Rhône and Bracos de Sologne. He later co-wrote the short film Monsieur Cordon with director Pierre Prévert. He soon turned to screenwriting, writing or co-writing several films like L'affaire du Courrier de Lyon (1936) by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara, L'affaire Lafarge or, more famously, Hôtel du Nord that he co-wrote with Marcel Carné and Henri Jeanson.
In 1942, starting with Douce (directed by Autant-Lara), 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 Autant-Lara : le Diable au corps (1945), l'Auberge 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 d'Or at the Cannes Festival of 1947. During this time, they also worked with René Clément (Au-delà 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. ...
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Filmes (76)
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
2010 · Self (archive footage)
The Red Inn
2007 · Story
The Passion of Bernadette
1990 · Writer
Engagements of the Heart
1987 · Writer
Fucking Fernand
1987 · Scenario Writer
Philippe Soupault et le surréalisme
1984 · Lui-même
The North Star
1982 · Writer
Coup de Torchon
1981 · Writer
Lady of the Camelias
1981 · Writer
The Judge and the Assassin
1976 · Writer
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 · Screenplay
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974 · Writer
Potatoes
1969 · Writer
Franciscan of Bourges
1968 · Writer
The Oldest Profession
1967 · Writer
A Woman in White Revolts
1966 · Scenario Writer
A Woman in White
1965 · Adaptation
Black Humor
1965 · Writer
This Special Friendship
1964 · Writer
Enough Rope
1963 · Screenplay
Imperial Venus
1962 · Writer
Crime Does Not Pay
1962 · Scenario Writer
Rendezvous
1961 · Writer
Thou Shalt Not Kill
1961 · Writer, Dialogue
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961 · Writer
It Happened All Night
1960 · Screenplay
The Regattas of San Francisco
1960 · Dialogue
The Green Mare
1959 · Writer
Way of Youth
1959 · Writer, Adaptation, Dialogue
A Woman Like Satan
1958 · Writer
The Gambler
1958 · Writer
Love Is My Profession
1958 · Screenplay
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956 · Screenplay
La Traversée de Paris
1956 · Writer
Gervaise
1956 · Writer
The Little Rebels
1955 · Adaptation, Dialogue
Le Rouge et le Noir
1954 · Writer
Mademoiselle Nitouche
1954 · Writer
Daughters of Destiny
1954 · Writer
The Game of Love
1954 · Adaptation, Dialogue
The Proud and the Beautiful
1953 · Scenario Writer, Dialogue
Forbidden Games
1952 · Dialogue
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Screenplay
Gigolo
1951 · Writer
The Red Inn
1951 · Screenplay, Story
God Needs Men
1950 · Screenplay
Keep an Eye on Amelia
1949 · Screenplay
The Walls of Malapaga
1949 · Screenplay
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1947 · Screenplay
The Seventh Door
1947 · Writer
Devil in the Flesh
1947 · Writer
Pastoral Symphony
1946 · Adaptation, Dialogue
Sylvia and the Ghost
1946 · Screenplay
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944 · Screenplay
The Traveler Without Luggage
1944 · Writer
The Lightning Rod Thief
1944 · Original Story
Adrien
1943 · Writer
Douce
1943 · Adaptation, Dialogue, Screenplay
The Scarecrow
1943 · Writer
Love Letters
1942 · Writer, Dialogue
Eight Men in a Castle
1942 · Screenplay
Forbidden to Love
1942 · Dialogue
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942 · Screenplay
The Note Seller
1942 · Writer
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941 · Screenplay
The Emigrant
1940 · Story
La Tradition de minuit
1939 · Screenplay
Hôtel du Nord
1938 · Screenplay
The Stream
1938 · Screenplay
The Lafarge Case
1938 · Screenplay, Story
Confessions of a Newlywed
1937 · Screenplay
Les Pirates du Rhône
1933 · Director
Le Colisée
1933 · Screenplay, Writer, Director
Levitan: That Night
1932 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
The Séance Is Over
1931 · Director, Writer
L'Âge d'or
1930 · Bandit (uncredited)
