Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroederis an Iranian-born film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the 1990s he has directed many big budget Hollywood films in which he often combined family drama with thriller and action genre...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 August 1941
CountryFrance
everyday way life-is
Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
years actors generations
Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
country childhood colombia
I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
trying different
Every time, I try to make something different.
venice television needed
Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.
literature matter
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
sexuality homosexuality form
I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
sarcastic black very-sarcastic
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.