Maurice Pialat
Birthday: 1925-08-31
Place of Birth: Cunlhat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
Biography: Maurice Pialat (21 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as being "realist", though many film critics acknowledge that it does not fit the traditional definition of realism.
Movies
A Nos Amours
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promisc...
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend ...
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Under the Sun of Satan
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her ...
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Grosse
A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in ord...
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One Minute for One Image
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn ...
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This Man Must Die
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and mu...
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Funny Reels
Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five...
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The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s include...
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Autour de L'Enfance nue
Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood)....
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Lola's Lolos
In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-...
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My Little Loves
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in ...
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Maurice Pialat, l'amour existe
A documentary about the life and career of Maurice Pialat produced by his widow, the accomplished fi...
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