Maurice Pialat (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	French Film Directors Series
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	June 2011
Authors:	Marja Warehime
Index compiled by:	Susan Williams
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-6823-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-6823-1
Barcode:	9780719068232

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