Wholesale Barbet Schroeder

From More to Amnesia, through General Idi Amin Dada, Maîtresse, or Barfly, from documentary to fiction, from the New Wave to Hollywood, Barbet Schroeder's films take us, over nearly fifty years, beyond genres, categories, and borders, to uncharted territories, a margin where morality, evolutions, and powers are observed and questioned, without imposing anything. With elegance and distance. Irony and benevolence. A cinema full of shadows and clarity. Jérôme d'Estais has previously published two essays with LettMotif editions: Jean Eustache or the Crossing of Appearances and Andrzej Zulawski, on the Edge. He has also contributed to the work on Hal Hartley and written two novels, 178 and Thomas Liebmann, The Last Days of the GDR's Yul Brynner, published by LettMotif. He is also the correspondent in Germany for La Septième Obsession. Press review • The book Barbet Schroeder on Pop, Cultures, and Co. Table of contents • Preface 9 • 1. Adventures and Discoveries: A Life of Cinema 11 • Influences 15 • The Cinémathèque 17 • A Band of Filmmakers, a Producer 27 • Éric Rohmer 37 • Telling, Searching, and Taking Risks 43 • Story, Bildungsroman, Suspense, and Speed 47 • Technique(s) 53 • Adventures 61 • 2. Observing and Representing 75 • Contrasts 79 • Good and Evil 81 • Animality and Humanity 85 • Civilization and the Unknown 91 • Rich and Poor 95 • Struggles 99 • The Margin, America, and Hollywood 101 • The Intimate vs. the Political 107 • Wars and Revolutions 115 • Love and Obsessions 121 • 3. Playing 127 • The Actor's Game 131 • Castings 133 • Bulle Ogier 145 • Schroeder, the Actor 151 • Playing with Borders 155 • Fiction and Reality 157 • Genres 171 • Drama and Irony 173 • Lies and Truths: Betting, Trapping, Winning 179 • 4. Origins 189 • Space and Time 193 • Architecture and Credits 195 • Explorations and Return to Roots 205 • A Fleeting and Continuous Present 211 • Language 215 • Languages and Accents 217 • The Language of Writers 221 • Music 227 • Towards New Adventures 231 • Appendices 233 • Filmography of Barbet Schroeder 235 • Bibliography 239 • Index 247