Maurice Pialat is a Réalisateur French of Cinéma born the August 21st 1925 with Cunlhat (Puy-de-Dôme, France) and dead the January 11th 2003 with Paris. It is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse in Paris.

By the realistic approach of its cinema, he is regarded as a direct heir to Jean Renoir. Maurice Pialat remains however unclassable. Nonconformist, demanding, very critical towards films of his contemporaries as much as towards his own films, it will trace until his death a cinema without concession close to that of Jean Eustace.

Although starting to realize at the end of the Fifties and having an esthetics close to that of the scenario writers of the New wave, it will always remain in margin of this movement having only little consideration for their cinema, except that of Jean-Luc Godard.

Biography

The first passion of Pialat was painting. It will keep an intimate relationship with this art (which it puts in scene in Van Gogh), even if it ceases painting moment when it starts to turn. If he liked to describe himself as autodidact, he of it is nothing. Maurice Pialat passed by the schools of Decorative Arts then by the Art schools of Paris. Following these trainings it tries to expose, without success and saw odd jobs (medical representative, representing for various companies…).

In 1951, it buys a camera and turns some court-measurings as an amateur (Isabelle in Dombes, Drôles of reels turned in 1957 or familiar Shade in 1958…).

In 1960, an order takes it along to film in Turkey a series of court-measurings, which will mark the beginning its career cinematographic.

In 1968, It turns its first feature film of fiction at 43 years, naked Childhood.

Catalog of films

Realizer and scenario writer

Court-measurings

• 1951 : Isabelle in Dombes
• 1952: Congress Eucharistique Diocesan (turned with Cunlhat, Puy-de-Dôme its native village)
• 1957: Funny of Reel
• 1958: familiar Shade
• 1961: Pigalle and the Love exists
• 1962: Janine
• 1964 : Pehlivan , Istanbul , Byzance , Horn of Gold , the Bosphorus and Main Galip known as the Court-Measurings Turks
• 1966: the Fields-Élysées , Van Gogh and the Camargue
• 1967: Of the sea will spout out the light and Paris studied
• 1968: Bullfighting in France , Lugdunum

Feature-length films

• 1968 : naked Childhood
• 1970: the House of wood (Serial TV of seven episodes)
• 1972: We will not age together
• 1974: the open Mouth
• 1978: Master key your vat initially
• 1980: Spitz
• 1983: With our loves
• 1985: Police force
• 1987: Under the sun of Satan
• 1991: Van Gogh
• 1995: Garçu

Actor

• 1957 : Play of the night of Daniel Costelle
• 1969: That the animal dies of Claude Chabrol
• 1970: the House of wood
• 1983: With our loves
• 1987: Under the sun of Satan

Rewards

• 1968 : Price Jean-Vigo for naked Childhood
• 1987: Palm of gold for Under the sun of Satan

Anecdotes

• During the handing-over of the prices to the Cannes festival in 1987, under the whistles of part of the room it draws up the fist and coward “ If you do not like me, I can say to you that I do not love you either ”.

External bonds

• Internet site dedicated to Maurice Pialat
• Maurice Pialat on Internet Movie Database