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THERE IS a delightful story David Stratton likes to tell about the great French director Bertrand Tavernier. When young Tavernier was to make his first film in the early seventies, he took the project not to some young New Ware writer but to the veteran Jean Aurenche, whose career dated back to the 1930s when he had worked with the likes of Jean Renoir and Marcel Carne, creating elegantly structured screen plays that were part of the famous tradition of quality. "I can't give you a New Wave screenplay," Aurenche is supposed to have told Tavernier. "I know," replied the fledgling director, "I want one of yours!"
Aurenche and Pierre Bost (another veteran recruited ...