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To listen to more of Jean-Claude Carrière’s stories, go the playlist:    • Jean-Claude Carrière - A house with a hist...   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: My parents were small farmers from the South of France, from the Herault department. They were both descended from farmer families, from two neighbouring villages, and they got married. I was born in 1931 in that small village, where I manage to still have a house, where I still stay from time to time. Therefore, it was a traditional farming community. It just so happened that my dad had heart problems, and he could not work in the field anymore, and that’s why after the war - the Second World War - they left the village to come to Paris, to run a cafe, which was quite a popular one, where I spent my youth. But until then, from my birth up to the age of 13, through my studies at my local school, my father taught me... my father and both of my grandfathers taught me their culture, like working the field, ploughing, grafting trees, building walls, anything that would be expected from a farmer. And of course, from being raised in that culture, I lived in another one. There was quite a clear break when I was 14 years old, and suddenly we lived in the city. I kept up with my studies, and now I am what I am. But I have always wanted to maintain the links with my childhood, with my roots, with those first steps in my life which are so important to me. Every time I go back, and I do at least twice per year, I build a wall, I plant trees, I tend the flowers, the vegetable patch, I talk with my neighbours, exactly as in a village. It is important to me that these roots have never been severed. And as a child I always had cats, and I continued to have cats throughout my entire life. There is one that is extremely young, and going a bit crazy just around us, we just need to accept it and let it be.