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Nov 20, 2023 · Barbet's imagination naturally leads him to characters with a lack of positivity, even at his own risk pushing the absence of positive characters into a Buena Vista Disney production (Before and After). But just because they are like that, his characters are not without humor. On the contrary. There is a lot of humor in Barbet Schroeder's films.
Nov 11, 2015 · Based on a story by debutant director Barbet Schroeder, the 1969 film More is a classic study of ennui. Schroeder had worked as a producer, primarily for Eric Rohmer, for a number of years, and had led a peripatetic lifestyle since he was a child, courtesy of his father’s occupation. The film was made in the wake of the political fallout of ...
The dissection of a real life legal case from every possible point of view may be the main subject from Barbet Schroeder's "Reversal of Fortune" but the heart of the film unquestionably resides in one of the most amazing acting performances in the history of cinema: Jeremy Iron's portrayal of Claus Von Bulow.
A director and producer of Swiss origins, born in Teheran, Barbet Schroeder worked for Cahiers du Cinéma and L’Air de Paris and founded Les Films du Losange in 1963. Over the course of his prolific career, he made Maîtresse (1975), then moved to America where he made Barfly (1987), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he was nominated for a Best Director Oscar, and Single White Female (1992).
Biografie (1) Barbet Schroeder se narodil v roce 1941 v Teheránu jako syn švýcarského geologa Jean-Williama Schroedera a jeho manželky Ursuly, původem z Německa. Vyrůstal ve střední Africe a v jižní Americe (Kolumbie). Je ženatý s herečkou Bulle Ogier. Schroeder vystudoval filozofii na pařížské Sorbonně a ve 23 letech ...
Barbet Schroeder is the only European well established in the U.S. to have achieved a measure of balance between Hollywood’s commercialism and his own philosophical agenda. Compare him to Paul Verhoeven: Both filmmakers only fully engaged with genre in the U.S. phases of their careers, and both have reputations for an interest in the perverse and the provocative.
Koko: A Talking Gorilla ( Koko, le gorille qui parle) is a 1978 documentary directed by Barbet Schroeder that focuses on Dr. Francine ‘Penny’ Patterson and her work with Koko, the gorilla Patterson claims to have taught to communicate with humans using symbols taken from American Sign Language. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard ...
