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- Maurice Pialat (French: [pjala]; 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as "realist", though many film critics acknowledge it does not fit the traditional definition of realism.
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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.
Dec 6, 2019 · 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. But Pialat himself steadfastly refused the label of realism.
Oct 15, 2015 · Maurice Pialat, Police, 1985, 35 mm, color, sound, 113 minutes. Inspector Mangin and Noria (Gérard Depardieu and Sophie Marceau). To call Pialat a “realist” is helpful inasmuch as it gives some idea of what his films are like to someone who has never seen one.
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.
Aug 31, 2011 · 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 trained as a painter, his particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young filmmakers in the 1990s.
We have often heard that the work of Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is defined by its realism, that he was a master at laying bare reality. But real in what sense?
