Movies: Maurice Pialat

  • 1969
    Autour de L'Enfance nue

    Autour de L'Enfance nue (1969)

    Autour de L'Enfance nue

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

    Autour de L'Enfance nue
  • 2006
    Murderers

    Murderers (2006)

    Murderers

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    Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina, who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event. As for Lizzy, a slightly unbalanced girl, has been confined there after a suicide attempt. ...

    Murderers
  • 1964
    Istanbul

    Istanbul (1964)

    Istanbul

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    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 moment that Pialat is filming it. History informs these films in a big way, with the voiceover narration (which i...

    Istanbul
  • 1984
    17ème jour de tournage du film

    17ème jour de tournage du film "Police" (1984)

    17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"

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    17ème jour de tournage du film
  • 1964
    Golden Horn

    Golden Horn (1964)

    Golden Horn

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    La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral) discussed in Byzance. As a contrast against Istanbul's status as a center of historical religious conflict, Pialat — drawing here on texts by the Fre...

    Golden Horn
  • 1964
    Pehlivan

    Pehlivan (1964)

    Pehlivan

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    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, originating in the games the soldiers would play to entertain themselves in between battles. Maybe th...

    Pehlivan
  • 2021
    Sous le soleil de Pialat

    Sous le soleil de Pialat (2021)

    Sous le soleil de Pialat

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    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 immediate...

    Sous le soleil de Pialat
  • 1964
    Byzance

    Byzance (1964)

    Byzance

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    Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzan...

    Byzance
  • 1965
    Van Gogh

    Van Gogh (1965)

    Van Gogh

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    A quick look at Auvers-sur-Oise, the place where Vincent Van Gogh spent the final months of his life and where he and his brother were both buried. Produced as part of the "Chroniques de France" TV series....

    Van Gogh
  • 1964
    Maître Galip

    Maître Galip (1964)

    Maître Galip

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    Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the...

    Maître Galip
  • 1966
    La Camargue

    La Camargue (1966)

    La Camargue

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    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....

    La Camargue
  • 1958
    The Familiar Shadow

    The Familiar Shadow (1958)

    The Familiar Shadow

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    Impressive sound design, non-linear editing, great ‘expressionistic’ locations and b&w cinematography, this is an experimental piece for Pialat, a psychological/gothic thriller of sorts......

    The Familiar Shadow
  • 1964
    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows (1964)

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows

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    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....

    The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
  • 1957
    Funny Reels

    Funny Reels (1957)

    Funny Reels

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    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...

    Funny Reels
  • 1964
    Bosphore

    Bosphore (1964)

    Bosphore

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    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....

    Bosphore
  • 1951
    Isabelle aux Dombes

    Isabelle aux Dombes (1951)

    Isabelle aux Dombes

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    Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic ...

    Isabelle aux Dombes
  • 1953
    Congrès eucharistique diocésain

    Congrès eucharistique diocésain (1953)

    Congrès eucharistique diocésain

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    Short doc by Maurice Pialat....

    Congrès eucharistique diocésain