Jean-Claude Carriere, 'Unbearable Lightness of Being' Screenwriter, Dies at 89 Pat Saperstein, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail His family confirmed his death, of natural causes, to AFP. Carriere was a frequent collaborator with Luis Bunuel, writing the screenplays for “Diary of a Chambermaid,” in which he also played the village priest, ” “Belle de Jour,” “The Milky Way” and “The Phantom of Liberty” as well as the international arthouse hits and Oscar nominees “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie.” In an interview for “The St...