A retrospective called Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat opens tomorrow at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque and runs until December 5. A second retrospetive on Pialat is also screening at New York’s ...

Arriving on the scene after the French New Wave, with emotionally raw, tumultuous films that reflect his own life and personality, Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) was widely acclaimed in France, but ...

The work of director Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is sufficiently celebrated in France to have generated an exhaustive Web site (www.maurice-pialat.net) and two DVD box sets. But his name is far from ...

Irascible, ornery and possibly brilliant Gallic helmer Maurice Pialat was the last Frenchman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, with 1987’s “Under Satan’s Sun.” Docu “Maurice Pialat: L’amour existe” is ...

The Museum of the Moving Image has just released a new trailer for its upcoming retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which runs October 16 – November 1. The career of ...

The Museum of Moving Image has announced a major retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which will run from October 16 – November 1. The career of late filmmaker ...

French cinema is historically a source of visceral narratives that don’t shy away from provocative subjects. Although director Maurice Pialat struck out at and from his contemporaries, the former ...

Maurice Pialat, a prickly but influential French film director, sometime actor and former painter who earned the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or for his 1987 “Under the Sun of Satan” ...

Maurice Pialat, film director and actor: born Cunilhat, France 31 August 1925; married (one son); died Paris 11 January 2003. Just one year ago, Maurice Pialat declared, "I started too old, and ...