Jean-Claude Carrière - 'The Manuscript Found in Saragossa' (37/80)

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French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) worked with many film-makers, most notably Luis Buñuel. He wrote screenplays for films including 'Belle de Jour', 'The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie', 'Tin Drum' and 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2010]

TRANSCRIPT: I knew about The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Potocki, as he is an author I liked a lot, and a friend led me to discover it... It is a book written in French, it needs to be said. And I read the book, I got Buñuel to read it, and he loved it. He really loved it, he even wanted to adapt it for the screen, and then it was adapted in Poland, a very good film by the way. We saw it together several times. He loved the idea of a... frame story, and actually The Milky Way is a bit like that. He went as far as exchanging one of his films with Poland, I don't remember which one now, I think Simon of the Desert, that he gave to Poland for free, so that he could share the screenplay of the Has film in Mexico... I don't know what happened to that film now, if it stayed in people's memories... I would love to see it again. The two sisters, the progressive transformation of the story that was so skilful and so disturbing at times. I would like to re-read the book, which must be somewhere here, and watch the film again, of course. But we kept talking about it. It was for Buñuel... the film, and the book was like a reference, an example to follow. He was always referring to that... the famous manuscript found in Saragossa, it was also his town, where he had gone to school, the capital of Aragon, where he was born.