Jean-Pol Fargeau is a French screenwriter and frequent collaborator of writer-director

Claire Denis Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Ev ...

. They have made ten films together, most notably '' Chocolat'' (1988), ''

Beau Travail ''Beau Travail'' (, French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella '' Billy Budd''. The story is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French For ...

'' (1999), and ''

35 Shots of Rum ''35 Shots of Rum'' (french: 35 Rhums) is a 2008 drama film directed by Claire Denis. It stars Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, and Grégoire Colin. It tells the story of a father-daughter relationship complicated by the arrival of an attra ...

'' (2008).

Career

Jean-Pol Fargeau is a French screenwriter who has often collaborated with director

. With Denis, he co-wrote '' Chocolat'' (1988), ''

'' (1999), and ''

'' (2008), '' Bastards'' (2013) and Denis' first English-language film, ''High Life'' (2018). As of 2019, the two had made ten films together. In a 2013 interview, Fargeau said of their collaboration, “It’s very strange, this partnership and relationship — we are like brother and sister,” albeit unusually free of strife for siblings. They work together based in Paris. Generally their work was highly praised, drawing award nominations and strong reviews, with some exceptions. Of '' Trouble Every Day'' (2002),

Stephen Holden Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic. Biography Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually be ...

wrote in ''

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'', "The story, by

laire Laire () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Geography The commune is located from Montbéliard. History The name of the commune was originally spelled ''Layr'' and appears for the firs ...

Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film, and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story together frustratingly difficult.” Still Holden called the end result a “daring, intermittently beautiful failure of a movie.” Fargeau’s memories of his own family secrets set the tone for ''Bastards'', although the particulars of the plot are not autobiographical. Fargeau has also collaborated with fashion designer

Agnès B. agnès b. (born Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé, 1941) is a French fashion designer known for her self-named brand, which includes fashion and film interests. Life and early career Agnès had mixed twins at 19 and she separated from their ...

to write the 2014 film ''My Name is Hmmm''.

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