Pierre Bost

Pierre Bost

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1901-09-05

  • Day of Death

    1975-12-06 (74 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Lasalle, Gard, France

Biography

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.

Acting

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