Jean-Pol Fargeau

Jean-Pol Fargeau is a French screenwriter and frequent collaborator of writer-director Claire Denis. They have made ten films together, most notably Chocolat, Beau Travail (1999), and 35 Shots of Rum (2008).

Career Jean-Pol Fargeau is a French screenwriter who has often collaborated with director Claire Denis. With Denis, he co-wrote Chocolat (1988), Beau Travail (1999), and 35 Shots of Rum (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. Still Holden called the end result a “daring, intermittently beautiful failure of a movie.”

Awards

Nominations Shared with: Claire Denis