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A young innocent falls for a leather-clad dominatrix in Barbet Schroeder’s controversial film, at once a conventional love story and a dark study of fetishism. Starring Gerard Depardieu as Olivier, the young innocent who falls for the mysterious maitresse Ariane (Bulle Ogier), a leather clad dominatrix.
Feb 2, 2004 · A man of many worlds, Barbet Schroeder has crossed over from his position as producer and director of European art cinema in the 1970s to mainstream Hollywood production, while still remaining capable of extraordinary personal low-budget auteur films on the order of Our Lady of the Assassins (2000). Born in Iran in 1941, Schroeder studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote criticism for ...
Barfly (1987) Barfly is a 1987 film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, California. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by director Barbet Schroeder – it was published, with illustrations by the author, in 1984 when film production was still pending.
Oct 18, 2017 · Hardtalk’s Zeinab Badawi speaks to the acclaimed Swiss film director Barbet Schroeder. His latest documentary is about an influential Buddhist monk in Myanmar who uses strong anti-Muslim ...
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 ...
Explore the films of Barbet Schroeder via the pull-down Navigation Menu above (Movies), listed in chronological order. Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Luciano Tovoli. (The TOP two photos show Barbet with longtime collaborator, cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, AIC/ASC. They have done 7 pictures together.) Tokyo, INJU, Film Crew with L. Tovoli.
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.
