Maurice Pialat’s first full-length film, L’Enfance nue
is a remarkably effective piece of social realist drama featuring a disturbed
young boy failing to integrate with the world around him... [More...]
For his second full-length film, Maurice Pialat adapted his auto-biographical novel, casting
Jean Yanne to play him on the strength of their physical similarity... [More...]
This film is a satire of modern living and explores the relative merits of prosperity
and the freedom that unemployment can bring. Pialat argues that having a good job
and a nice home is no substitute for a fulfilling... [More...]
Maurice Pialat’s most improbable film is this daring variation on the film noir
thriller genre, which strangely presages the tough post-noir thrillers of the 1990s... [More...]
Winner of the coveted Palme d’or at the 1987 Cannes film festival, Sous le soleil de
satan is a film which, much like its director, Maurice Pialat... [More...]
Van Gogh was the penultimate work from Maurice Pialat, one of France’s most
controversial film directors of the 1980s and 1990s. Pialat established himself
with his uncompromising social realist dramas... [More...]
