One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice
Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean
Renoir and Robert Bresson. A quintessentially realist filmmaker,
who, like Bresson, was also trained as a painter, Pialat's
particular form of realism influenced an entire generation of young
filmmakers in the 1990s. This volume is the first book-length study
of Pialat's cinema in English. It provides an introduction to a
complex and difficult director, who saw himself as a marginal and
marginalized filmmaker, but whose films are deeply rooted in French
society and culture. Pialat was long considered the only major
filmmaker to portray "la France profonde," the heart of France --
the people who, as he put it, "take the subway." Taken as a whole,
Pialat's work can be seen both as an oblique autobiography and the
portrait of a fundamental institution -- the family -- over several
generations.
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