Warehime, Marja. <br/><br/>
Maurice Pialat. 

 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2006. 
 - 1 online resource (193 pages) 
 - French Film Directors .
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<br/><br/>Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Maurice Pialat, the outsider; 2. Pialat and the Nouvelle Vague; 3. A family of works; 4. Family portraits I: Nous ne vieillironspas ensemble, La Gueule ouverte andPasse ton bac d'abord; 5. Family portraits II: Loulou, A nosamours and Police; 6. The saint and the artist: men apart; 7. Conclusion: paternity and Le Garçu; Filmography; Select bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> 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 nineties. 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 marginalised filmmaker, but whose films are deeply rooted in French society a. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847794376 9781781703267 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA604413  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013354760  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pialat, Maurice, 1925-2003 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--France.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1998  / .M387 2006