, in Locarno to introduce his latest doc “Ricardo and Painting,” was greeted with a Special Tribute Award before the screening.
“I have already done my ‘Trilogy of Evil.’ I could continue: the world is full of bad people. But then there was this friend of mine, who I thought was such a good person,” he tells Cavallo, convinced that “true life exists in creation,” could teach anyone how to change their way of seeing, claims Schroeder, sacrificing everything for his art.
“The day it happened, we found ourselves on the street. Rohmer wanted to start another magazine, but I said no: ‘Tomorrow, I will file papers to create a production company that will make good movies with good directors.’ He replied: ‘In that case, I am O.K. with it’.” “She helped me understand the way movies were made in the U.S.. Also, I had the final cut on all my American movies. Which means that to me, they were very personal and I am very proud of all of them. OfBehind “Single White Female,” “Kiss of Death” or Sandra Bullock vehicle “Murder by Numbers,” also featuring Ryan Gosling, Schroeder was nominated for an Academy Award for “Reversal of Fortune,” with Jeremy Irons earning a statuette for his role.
“I learnt the rules of the system and it was great for a while. The minute it started being difficult, the minute I saw my movies weren’t doing so well, I went away and made ‘Our Lady of the Assassins’ in Medellin. A movie that couldn’t be insured, because back then, you would walk out of the house and there would be a corpse on the sidewalk. It would be gone by the time you came back.