Maurice Pialat
Also Known As: 모리스 피알라, 莫里斯·皮亚拉
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Cunlhat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
Birthday: August 31, 1925
Deathday: January 11, 2003
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Gender: Male
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A Nos Amours
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-16
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
Overview: In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-18
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Under the Sun of Satan
Overview: Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-05
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Grosse
Overview: A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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One Minute for One Image
Overview: TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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This Man Must Die
Overview: When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-04
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Funny Reels
Overview: Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with his coworkers. Pialat's early short film made for Olivetti's end-of-year party, where the filmmaker was then a sales representative; an homage to silent era slapstick comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
Overview: One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-27
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Autour de L'Enfance nue
Overview: Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-31
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Lola's Lolos
Overview: In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he makes his pilgrimage to Paris and seeks adventure while living on a barge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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My Little Loves
Overview: Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Cinématon XXIV
Overview: Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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