Single White Female
Barbet Schroeder
Allison, a young New Yorker, finds herself alone after breaking up with her boyfriend and is desperately seeking a flatmate. She chooses Hedra, a shy and retiring young woman. As time goes by, Hedra's behaviour becomes disturbing. She is in total admiration of her landlady and steals her appearance, her haircut, and so on, up to the point of no return...
With : Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky
Screenplay : Don Roos (d'après le roman de John Lutz)
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Howard Shore
Costumes : Milena Canonero
Screenplay : Don Roos (d'après le roman de John Lutz)
Image : Luciano Tovoli
Editing : Lee Percy
Music : Howard Shore
Costumes : Milena Canonero
Production : Colombia Pictures
Distribution: Hollywood Classics
Distribution: Hollywood Classics
"Making a thriller is a fascinating experience for any director. It is a genre where the slightest mistake is unforgivable and it demands total respect for detail at all levels. My other challenge was that I was making a film for a general audience in the US – which is simultaneously the most demanding, the most blasé and the most stupid in the world. My first difficulty was convincing Columbia to finance a around two actresses who were unknown to the studios, Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Without them I wouldn't have made the film" (Barbet Schroeder). A genuine studio film, produced by a major studio, Barbet explores the psychological thriller. The theme of dual personality is the key to the film where fear increases every second. "The flat where the action takes place is a fretwork of doors and mirrors which break up and multiply the space depending on whether the two heroines attract or repel each other" (Christophe Gans).