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The Last Days of Chez Nous,
single work
film/TV
Beth, a successful writer of great energy and humour, lives with her French husband, her daughter by a first marriage, and a lodger, in her inner-city home known as Chez Nous. Everyone gets along, despite some occasional tension, until Beth's much younger sister returns from overseas.
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Two Friends,
single work
film/TV
Focusing on the troubled mid-teen years of two schoolgirls, this telemovie explores the change in their relationship over a period of a year.
- Introduction Cypresses and Spires: Writing for Film, single work prose
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All Those Tears,
single work
essay
'Most of us watch films but don’t read screenplays. They are odd pieces of writing because they only exist in order to become something else. They necessarily ‘vanish’, as the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière has written. The process of production takes over, and the screenplay disappears, no longer needed, into the film.' (Introduction)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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All Those Tears
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: 'The Last Days of Chez Nous' and 'Two Friends' 2016;'Most of us watch films but don’t read screenplays. They are odd pieces of writing because they only exist in order to become something else. They necessarily ‘vanish’, as the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière has written. The process of production takes over, and the screenplay disappears, no longer needed, into the film.' (Introduction)
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Cypresses and Spires: Writing for Film
1992
single work
prose
— Appears in: 'The Last Days of Chez Nous' and 'Two Friends' 1992;
— Appears in: True Stories : Selected Non-Fiction 1996; (p. 115-119)
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Cypresses and Spires: Writing for Film
1992
single work
prose
— Appears in: 'The Last Days of Chez Nous' and 'Two Friends' 1992;
— Appears in: True Stories : Selected Non-Fiction 1996; (p. 115-119) -
All Those Tears
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: 'The Last Days of Chez Nous' and 'Two Friends' 2016;'Most of us watch films but don’t read screenplays. They are odd pieces of writing because they only exist in order to become something else. They necessarily ‘vanish’, as the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière has written. The process of production takes over, and the screenplay disappears, no longer needed, into the film.' (Introduction)