Maurice Pialat

by Marja Warehime

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719068231
• ISBN13: 9780719068232
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"