Tricheurs. 1984. Directed by Barbet Schroeder

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Tricheurs. 1984. France/West Germany/Portugal. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Courtesy Janus Films

Tricheurs. 1984. France/West Germany/Portugal. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Screenplay by Schroeder, Pascal Bonitzer, Steve Baës. With Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier. DCP courtesy Janus Films. In French, German, Portuguese; English subtitles. 94 min.

Gambling, a Love Story: Barbet Schroeder’s fascination in such memorable films as Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, and Maîtresse with themes of cheating and betrayal, addiction and self-defeat, finds its most elegant articulation in this Dostoevskian tale of compulsive dreamers who convince themselves they can game the roulette wheel. The cast is a brilliant combination of authentic lowlifes and smarmy tuxedoed wastrels, led by French pop singer-songwriter Jacques Dutronc (a favorite of Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat, and Steven Spielberg), Bulle Ogier as his “good luck charm,” and Rainer Werner Fassbinder regular Kurt Raab. Equally evocative are the score by Fassbinder’s go-to composer, Peer Raben, cinematography by Wim Wenders’s longtime collaborator Robby Müller, and the spiraling, Hadean form of Oscar Niemeyer’s casino in Madeira, Portugal.

This film accompanies Bulle Ogier: A Tribute.

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