Maurice Pialat Movies

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against...

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...

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a thousand years to the time of the Ottoman Empire,...

Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only one that was shot in color.

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise...

A slice of life of a group of young working class friends in a Northern French village coming to the end of their school years and embarking upon...

During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is...

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...

Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with...

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)

Documentary about the making of Maurice Pialat's 1969 film "L'Enfance nue" (Naked Childhood).

A documentary about the life and career of Maurice Pialat produced by his widow, the accomplished film producer Sylvie Pialat. The film interweaves...

A Catholic holiday in a rural village in Auzelles, the filmmaker's native region in the Massif Central.

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

Images of Parisian department stores serve as a backdrop for commentary portraying the coquettish Parisian woman.

Pialat roams Pigalle, a two-faced neighborhood frequented at night by cabaret patrons and during the day by local residents.

Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for...

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.

A report celebrating Lyon, a young and vibrant city that has managed to preserve the vestiges of its ancient past.