Maurice Pialat Movies

Images of Parisian department stores serve as a backdrop for commentary portraying the coquettish Parisian woman.

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...

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...

A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The...

Ruby Alcow becomes assistant manager of a factory, twenty years after failing his baccalaureate five times, engaging in absurdist shenanigans with...

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.