Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat
Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat
February 5–March 25, 2016
Pialat (1925–2003) is considered the greatest French filmmaker of the post–New Wave era. A gifted storyteller, Pialat made films that capture the authenticity of real life.
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Past Films
Naked Childhood
Maurice Pialat
France, 1968Imported 35mm Prints!
Friday, February 5 6:30 PMView DetailsA tender but unflinching study of an orphaned boy whose erratic, aggressive behavior leads him to be passed from one set of foster parents to another. With short Love Exists.
Under the Sun of Satan
Maurice Pialat
France, 1987Imported 35mm Print!
Sunday, February 7 3 PMView DetailsGérard Depardieu displays his range as an actor in this film about a parish priest for whom life is an endless struggle with Satan. Sandrine Bonnaire costars. Winner, Cannes Palme d'or.
Loulou
Maurice Pialat
France, 1980Imported 35mm Print!
Sunday, February 14 7 PMView DetailsA bourgeoise leaves her husband for a working-class layabout in this absorbing study of desire.
Maurice Pialat: Love Exists
Anne-Marie Faux, Jean-Pierre Devillers
France, 2007Friday, February 19 6:30 PMView DetailsAn insightful portrait of one of the greatest French filmmakers of the post–Nouvelle Vague era.
A Nos Amours
Maurice Pialat
France, 1983Imported 35mm Print!
Friday, February 19 8:15 PMView DetailsThe "best film of the year" (Village Voice) revolves around a teenage girl (Sandrine Bonnaire) and her disruptive erotic power over her own family.
Naked Childhood
Maurice Pialat
France, 1968Imported 35mm Prints!
Saturday, February 20 8:30 PMView DetailsA tender but unflinching study of an orphaned boy whose erratic, aggressive behavior leads him to be passed from one set of foster parents to another. With short Love Exists.
Van Gogh
Maurice Pialat
France, 1991Imported 35mm Print!
Sunday, February 21 1:30 PMView DetailsThe artist's world in the last two months of his life.
Under the Sun of Satan
Maurice Pialat
France, 1987Imported 35mm Print!
Friday, February 26 6:30 PMView DetailsGérard Depardieu displays his range as an actor in this film about a parish priest for whom life is an endless struggle with Satan. Sandrine Bonnaire costars. Winner, Cannes Palme d'or.
We Will Not Grow Old Together
Maurice Pialat
France, 1972Friday, February 26 8:15 PMView DetailsPialat's daringly autobiographical story concerns a woman extricating herself from a partner who delights in degrading her. Jean Yanne, Marlène Jobert star.
Loulou
Maurice Pialat
France, 1980Imported 35mm Print!
Saturday, February 27 8:30 PMView DetailsA bourgeoise leaves her husband for a working-class layabout in this absorbing study of desire.
Pialat's Turkish Chronicles
Imported 35mm Prints!
Saturday, March 5 6:30 PMView DetailsSix lyrical shorts dedicated to Turkey’s history and people, shot there by Pialat and cinematographer Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) in 1964.
The Mouth Agape
Maurice Pialat
France, 1974Digital Restoration!
Saturday, March 5 8:15 PMView DetailsIn this "incandescent masterpiece"(Sight & Sound), a man (Philippe Léotard) watches his mother die of cancer.
Graduate First
Maurice Pialat
France, 1979Imported 35mm Print!
Friday, March 11 8:30 PMView DetailsPialat's slice-of-life portrait of kids in a northern mining town has the brutally compassionate sense of reality for which he is acclaimed.
The House in the Woods
Maurice Pialat
France, 1971Sunday, March 13 1:30 PMView DetailsOne of Pialat's most beloved films, The House in the Woods tells of life in a French village during WWI and centers on a gamekeeper and his wife who take in children left abandoned in the war.
Police
Maurice Pialat
1985Imported 35mm Print!
Saturday, March 19 8:20 PMView DetailsGérard Depardieu stars in this policier about a burnt-out cop, a Tunisian drug ring, and an elusive lover.
A Nos Amours
Maurice Pialat
France, 1983Imported 35mm Print!
Friday, March 25 6:30 PMView DetailsThe "best film of the year" (Village Voice) revolves around a teenage girl (Sandrine Bonnaire) and her disruptive erotic power over her own family.
Le Garçu
Maurice Pialat
France, 1995Imported 35mm Print!
Friday, March 25 8:30 PMView DetailsGérard Depardieu once again shows his extraordinary range, this time as a Parisian deciding whether or not to leave his wife for his mistress.