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Name
  
Pierre Bost


Role
  
Screenwriter

Siblings
  
Jacques-Laurent Bost


Born
  
5 September 1901 Lasalle, Gard, France (
1901-09-05
)

Occupation
  
Screenwriter, novelist, and journalist

Died
  
December 6, 1975, Paris, France

Movies
  
Forbidden Games, Four Bags Full, Devil in the Flesh, Gervaise, Les amities particulieres

Similar People
  
Jean Aurenche, Claude Autant‑Lara, Rene Clement, Rene Cloerec, Jean Delannoy

Pierre Bost (5 September 1901, Lasalle, Gard – 6 December 1975, Paris) was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Primarily a novelist until the 1940s, he was known mainly as a screenwriter after 1945, often collaborating with Jean Aurenche.

In his 1954 article Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"), François Truffaut attacked the current state of French films, singling out certain screenwriters and producers. The screenwriting team of Bost and Aurenche were criticized for their style of literary adaptations in particular, which Truffaut considered old-fashioned.

The journalist Jacques-Laurent Bost was Pierre Bost's brother.

Selected filmography

  • The Mondesir Heir (1940)
  • The Trump Card (1942)
  • La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
  • Devil in the Flesh (1947)
  • The Red Inn (1951)
  • Forbidden Games (1952)
  • Le Rouge et le Noir (1954)
  • Gervaise (1956)
  • Les amitiés particulières (1964)
  • The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
  • References

    Pierre Bost Wikipedia