Maurice Pialat

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Maurice Pialat - what members say

Loulou review by A customer from North Cornelly, South Wales

More Cliff Richard than Loulou 1 March 2008
...One of those rare occasions when a couple of pseudos in the form of Maurice Pialat and notably Arlette Langmann disappear up their own backsides and the unusually supine Fren... Read customer review

Sous Le Soleil De Satan review by Andrews from London

Pialat is the greatest 8 July 2010
...azingly good - Sous Le Soleil De Satan has, for me, confirmed my suspicion that Maurice Pialat is among the greatest film directors there has ever been. Pialat makes Berg... Read customer review

A Nos Amours review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

You've had that lamp on all night - it's obvious you don't pay the bills! 19 August 2010
... each try to preserve individual identities within its restrictive parameters. Maurice Pialat's performance as the father is beautifully observed, and his scene with Bonnair... Read customer review

Van Gogh (1991)
Starring: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gerard Sety
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Running nearly three hours, Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh is a leisurely paced look at the famous painter's final year. Pialat's portrait differs from many other films in that he shows Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) as being reasonably sane and he focuses on the everyday events of the painter's life and ..read more »

54% from 746 members
Not currently released

Sous Le Soleil De Satan (1987)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Positioned somewhere between Bresson's immortal Journal d'un curé de campagne and Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Maurice Pialat's staggering Sous le soleil de Satan [Under the Sun of Satan] addresses the torrent of spiritual and intellectual turmoil unloosed among the denizens of a ..read more »

62% from 130 members
Not available for rental

Police (1985)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Pascale Rocard
Director: Maurice Pialat
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This strange crime-cum-romance story starts out with the ordinary work-a-day life of Mangin, an apparently straight-and-narrow cop (Gerard Depardieu), and then segues into a love story after he meets Noria, a beautiful Arab woman (Sophie Marceau) who has just been arrested during a drug raid. ..read more »

63% from 258 members
Not available for rental

A Nos Amours (1983)
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat
Director: Maurice Pialat
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A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Maurice Pialat's serene, perilous masterwork provides the movie romance a definitive check and eminently deceptive balance - the X scratched on top of the O. In one of the ..read more »

64% from 207 members
Not available for rental

Loulou on DVD (1980)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu, Guy Marchand
Director: Maurice Pialat
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A young woman leaves her bourgeois boyfriend and starts a love affair with a sexier man...

57% from 934 members

Passe ton bac d'abord... on DVD (1979)
Starring: Philippe Marlaud, Valerie Chassigneaux, Sabine Haudepin
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Maurice Pialat examines the seemingly dead-end future of a number of young French teenagers living in a northern mining town, in his social-realist drama PASSE TON BAC D'ABORD. A group of friends, coming to the end of their school years, fill their days with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Some lapse ..read more »

61% from 72 members

La Gueule Ouverte (1974)
Starring: Philippe Leotard, Nathalie Baye, Monique Melinand
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Directed by Muarice Pialat (LOULOU, POLICE), this arresting drama focuses on a woman coming to terms with the later stages of a terminal illness and the repercussions her disease has on her closest family members.

71% from 64 members
Not available for rental

Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble on DVD (1972)
Starring: Marlene Jobert, Muse Dalbray, Jacques Galland
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Maurice Pialat's powerful romantic drama examines the final period of a long and ultimately unhappy affair. Jean (Jean Yanne) is an unpleasant, domineering man. Though he still lives with his wife, their marriage has been over for a long time. For six years, Jean has had an affair with the much-..read more »

64% from 101 members

L'Enfance-Nue (1968)
Starring: Michel Tarrazon, Raoul Billerey, Maurice Coussonneau
Director: Maurice Pialat
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Marking his feature debut, director Maurice Pialat's film chronicles the trials and tribulations of the young Francois, a rural orphan whose unpredictable nature leads him from his foster home into the arms of a benevolent elderly couple.

71% from 169 members
Not available for rental

Van Gogh - 2.5 stars
Sous Le Soleil De Satan - 3.0 stars
Police - 3.0 stars
A Nos Amours - 3.0 stars
Loulou - 3.0 stars

L'Enfance-Nue - 3.5 stars
La Gueule Ouverte - 3.5 stars
A Nos Amours - 3.0 stars
Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble - 3.0 stars
Police - 3.0 stars

Van Gogh - 2.5 stars
Loulou - 3.0 stars
Passe ton bac d'abord... - 3.0 stars
Sous Le Soleil De Satan - 3.0 stars
Police - 3.0 stars