Films byTexts by Maurice Pialat
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Maurice Pialat, 1978, 86’

Maurice Pialat: This isn’t cinéma-vérité. That doesn’t exist. Everything is always reconstituted. The only truth of the cinema is what’s filmed with sincerity; there’s authenticity there.

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Maurice Pialat, 1980, 110’

Nelly, a restless middle-class girl abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the unemployed, leather-clad layabout, Loulou.

 

Which part of French cinema’s heritage do you feel you have the most in common with?

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Maurice Pialat, 1991, 158’

A look at the last 60 days of Van Gogh’s life. After leaving the asylum, he settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, an art lover and patron.