These instructions describe the process of downloading and installing IDL 7.1. Click on one of the links below to jump to the section of interest:
Before you begin:
To download and install IDL:
idl711win32_setup.exe for 32-bit Windows or idl711win64_setup.exe for 64-bit Windows) and click Save. idl711win32_setup.exe or idl711win64_setup.exe file and double click on it to begin installing IDL. C:\Program Files\ITTBefore you begin:
To download and install IDL:
To understand Dirty Like an Angel, one must abandon conventional cinematic morality. Breillat is not interested in whodunnit. She is interested in the transaction of looking.
By 1991, Laura Mulvey’s theory of the "male gaze" had become academic currency. Breillat, ever the provocateur, decides to literalize it. Pierre is the ultimate spectator—a man who has seen so much violence and depravity that he can no longer achieve arousal through normal sexuality. He has regressed to a primal state of voyeurism. He wants not a lover, but an image.
Barbara, for her part, is not a victim in the legal sense. She is a pragmatist. Lio’s performance is masterful precisely because it refuses psychological motivation. She doesn’t cry. She doesn’t bargain. She negotiates. She agrees to Pierre’s terms with the same flat affect she might use to order a coffee. This terrifies Pierre more than any threat of arrest ever could.
Breillat inverts the power dynamic. Pierre believes he is the master—the voyeur, the cop, the man. But by accepting his perverse contract, Barbara has robbed him of his authority. She gives him exactly what he asks for: a silent, dirty angel. And in giving it freely, she reveals the poverty of his desire. He wanted to possess her; instead, she has become an object so perfectly that he can no longer see a person. He becomes lonely in her presence. Dirty Like an Angel -Catherine Breillat- 1991-
The film follows Barbara (played by Claude Brasseur’s daughter, Lio, a popular French singer/actress), a beautiful and impulsive young woman engaged to a rich, older man. However, she becomes obsessed with a corrupt, charismatic police inspector named Norbert (played by Roland Amstutz).
Norbert is investigating a case involving stolen jewels and a criminal gang. Barbara, fascinated by his roughness, amorality, and "dirty" soul, abandons her comfortable life to follow him. She wants to be "dirtied" by him—to experience a raw, degrading, yet liberating passion outside social conventions. The film follows their destructive, manipulative relationship as Barbara descends into a world of violence, jealousy, and sexual transgression, eventually planning a heist with Norbert that leads to a shocking, bleak conclusion.
The film follows Georges (Claude Brasseur), a world-weary, alcoholic private investigator in the south of France. He’s hired by a mysterious woman, Barbara (Lio), to protect her from her wealthy, possessive husband who is about to be released from prison. Barbara claims the husband will kill her for hiding a fortune in stolen diamonds. To understand Dirty Like an Angel , one
Georges, ever the cynical romantic, falls for her. But as he digs deeper, he discovers Barbara is a compulsive liar, and the husband might be the victim. The diamonds become a MacGuffin—a shiny object everyone chases, but no one truly wants.
The title is the film’s thesis statement. What does it mean to be “dirty like an angel”?
For Breillat, “dirty” is not mere filth or vulgarity. It is the radical impurity of the living body. It is menstruation, sex, sweat, excrement, lactation—all the biological realities that patriarchal society, romantic cinema, and moral laws conspire to veil. To be dirty is to be unflinchingly embodied. By 1991, Laura Mulvey’s theory of the "male
The “angel,” conversely, represents the spiritual, the ideational, the pure—the law without the body. An angel is a messenger of a divine or absolute order. It has no genitals, no anus, no desires of its own. It simply enforces the Word.
Barbara is the paradox Breillat relentlessly pursues throughout her career: a being who is neither a whore nor a Madonna, neither a pure spirit nor a degraded animal. She is an angel made of flesh and blood, a creature whose spirituality is so intense that it can only express itself through the dirty, chaotic, offensive realities of the body. She commits a crime (theft) not out of need, but as a kind of profane prayer—a ritual act that reveals the hypocrisy of the law that criminalizes desire while being utterly powered by it.
Georges, the lawman, is the inverse: a “clean” demon. He wears the respectable suit of order, but his soul is the dirtiest thing in the film—rotten with cynicism, voyeurism, and a secret longing to transgress. He doesn’t want to rescue Barbara or sleep with her in the traditional sense. He wants to become her—to understand how to be both filthy and transcendent.
In the vast, uncomfortable, and often brilliant filmography of Catherine Breillat, the 1991 film Dirty Like an Angel ( Sale comme un ange ) occupies a peculiar, shadowy throne. Sandwiched between her controversial debut A Real Young Girl (1976) and the international infamy of Romance (1999), this film is frequently cited by Breillat herself as one of her most personal and radical works. Yet, for decades, it remained one of her least-seen, a spectral title whispered about in cinephile circles, overshadowed by the more graphic provocations of her later career.
With its recent restorations and a slow-burn critical reassessment, Dirty Like an Angel emerges not as a lesser work, but as the philosophical Rosetta Stone of Breillat’s cinema. It is a film that strips away the safety net of melodrama to stage a raw, theatrical, and intellectually brutal duel between two forces: the anarchic, biological reality of female desire and the rigid, masculine architecture of the law.
Before you begin:
/Applications/), be sure you have administrator privileges before running the installer. To download and install IDL:
idl711mac.zip file to unpack it. Unpacking the file will create a folder named idl711mac. idl711mac folder and double-click on the Install icon to begin the installation. /Applications/, under which the installer creates the itt/idl71 directory. To modify this location, click on Choose. The path you specify must not contain any spaces in the folder names. Click Next to begin the installation.On Windows platforms, the IDL installation program prompts you to run the License Wizard after IDL has been installed. If the License Wizard is already started, skip to the next section.
To start the Licensing Wizard after the installation program has finished, do the following:
Select Programs → IDL 7.1 → License Wizard from the Start menu.
| Note You must be logged in as root or an administrator, or have write permissions on the licensing directory, to license IDL. |
For C shell:
source ITT_DIR/idl71/bin/idl_setup
For Korn shell:
. ITT_DIR/idl71/bin/idl_setup.ksh
For Bash shell:
. ITT_DIR/idl71/bin/idl_setup.bash
where ITT_DIR is the main installation directory for IDL.
ittlicense at the UNIX prompt.Double-click on LicenseWizard in the main installation directory for IDL.
The License Wizard allows you to retrieve your license directly from the ITT Visual Information Solutions licensing web site. To retrieve your license:
| Note On some platforms, the license information is not automatically transferred to the License Wizard. If the information is not transferred, copy it from the web browser window and paste it into the License Wizard. |
If you have problems with your installation, contact ITT Visual Information Solutions Technical Support for assistance:
Phone: 303-413-3920
Fax: 303-786-9909
Web page: http://www.ittvis.com
You can also visit the Tech Tips section on our Web page for Frequently Asked Questions.
International customers should contact their local ITT Visual Information Solutions office or distributor for technical support.
IDL 7.1 (August 14, 2009)