Maurice Pialat

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 to a complex and difficult director, who saw h...