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- One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker, who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat's particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young filmmakers in the 1990s.
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The S&S Deep Focus season Maurice Pialat and the New French Realism screens at BFI Southbank, London, until the end of December. Read more about Pialat and the young French talent he inspired, including an interview with Olivier Assayas, in our November 2019 issue.
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His work is often described as "realist", [1] though many film critics [1] [2] acknowledge it does not fit the traditional definition of realism. Pialat's films are said to have dispensed with mannerisms, and his everyday stories tell the bittersweet nature of the French petty bourgeoisie.
Oct 16, 2015 · Pialat is no liberal. His very subject is emotional violence, accompanied sometimes by physical violence, or realized sometimes with a few perfectly chosen, quietly spoken soul-killing words....
Heavily indebted to the spirit of Maurice Pialat, the New French Cinema of the 1990s found its voice with some raw realist gems, writes Ginette Vincendeau.
Mar 18, 2021 · Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is often described as a ‘realist’ filmmaker. His work is certainly full of powerful moments – of spontaneous tenderness or sudden brutality between people – that are strikingly lifelike in their effect.
The French film director Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) did not make many films but left a distinctive cinematic legacy. We could say that Pialat is a “humanist” film maker in the sense that he explores universal themes such as death, desire and jealousy, yet these are presented through the specific cultural lens of post-war France.
Mar 21, 2003 · It was the insecurity a young child experiences when his parents leave him or her in the company of strange adults. In the same way I felt that Pialat had abandoned the viewer with his characters, leaving us to make our own way in their vividly realistic world. I left the film disturbed, overwhelmed even.
