Irascible, ornery and possibly brilliant Gallic helmer Maurice Pialat was the last Frenchman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, with 1987’s “Under Satan’s Sun.” Docu “Maurice Pialat: L’amour existe” is ...

A retrospective called Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat opens tomorrow at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque and runs until December 5. A second retrospetive on Pialat is also screening at New York’s ...

The work of director Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is sufficiently celebrated in France to have generated an exhaustive Web site (www.maurice-pialat.net) and two DVD box sets. But his name is far from ...

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Maurice Pialat, a prickly but influential French film director, sometime actor and former painter who earned the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or for his 1987 “Under the Sun of Satan” ...

French cinema is historically a source of visceral narratives that don’t shy away from provocative subjects. Although director Maurice Pialat struck out at and from his contemporaries, the former ...

Maurice Pialat, film director and actor: born Cunilhat, France 31 August 1925; married (one son); died Paris 11 January 2003. Just one year ago, Maurice Pialat declared, "I started too old, and ...

The Maurice Pialat retrospective is organized by Chief Curator David Schwartz and Assistant Film Curator Aliza Ma and presented with support from Unifrance, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy ...