death_place death_date birth_place birth_date signature article_title name occupation
paris , france 6 december 1975 lasalle , gard , france 5 september 1901 pierre bost signature.svg pierre bost
 pierre bost screenwriter , novelist , and journalist
pierre bost

pierre bost -lrb- 5 september 1901 , lasalle , gard -- 6 december 1975 , paris -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- `` a certain trend of french cinema '' -rrb- , 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 .
the journalist jacques-laurent bost was pierre bost 's brother .
