The Early Films of Barbet Schroeder
The Swiss-Iranian filmmaker Barbet Schroeder has had a fascinating career in cinema. He began in the French New Wave movement of the 1960s producing work for Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, before directing his own features (both narrative films and documentaries), then embarking on a career in Hollywood (making such films as BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE and SINGLE WHITE FEMALE) and then returning to Europe to make a series of documentaries. This season of films at Triskel Arts Centre consists of his first three narrative films, each one fascinating as snapshots of their times and as non-judgemental explorations of their subject matters.
