![]() That experience taught him patience and a kind of scrappiness that has helped him during his almost 30-year film-making career. So, at 22 and pretending he was 26, he set off to squeeze some money out of French financiers. Schroeder also yearned to direct, but decided to learn the business end first by getting Rohmer’s movies produced. Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard already had left and were making movies, but Eric Rohmer was still there dreaming about directing. In the early ’60s, Schroeder joined the staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the Parisian film magazine that became a breeding ground for hot young directors. Making “Before and After”: Director Barbet Schroeder with actors Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep and Edward Furlong on the set of the film. Backed up by a supporting cast of Alfred Molina and John Heard and a screenplay adaptation by “The Silence of the Lambs”‘ Ted Tally – what could go wrong with “Before and After”? Well, pretty much everything. Streep shares the screen with Liam Neeson, fresh off his star-making turn in “Schindler’s List”, and Edward Furlong, in a first serious role since his own star-making turn in “Terminator 2”. When he is caught and awaiting trial, they share the family’s dinner table with him, uncertain if he’s still their little boy or a cold-blooded killer. Well-respected parents of a small town – the father an sculptor, the mother a doctor – must come to terms with the fact that their son’s girlfriend was murdered, and their son is on the run. Schroeder was a director to work with, one that actors adored – Irons recommended him to Streep when the script for “Before and After” arrived. He continued with “Kiss of Death”, the erotic thriller “Single White Female” starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and made great thrillers after this one – “Desperate Measures” and “Murder by Numbers” among them. The “Barfly” director did the masterful “Reversal of Fortune” in 1990, winning Jeremy Irons an Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bülow (and should have won a second award for Glenn Close’s riveting performance). ![]() But if there’s one word to not describe Barbet Schroeder’s “Before and After”, it would be “thrilling”.ĭirector Barbet Schroeder had a lucky streak in the early 1990s with decent, intelligent thrillers. ![]() After receiving critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for “The Bridges of Madison County”, Meryl Streep revived the rather unfamiliar thriller territory, playing a mother whose son is accused of murder.
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