Maurice Pialat France, 1979A typical French parent's admonition when a child wants more freedom, "graduate first," is here used ironically. Pialat's portrait of "the blank generation" of the 1970s ...

The work of director Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) is sufficiently celebrated in France to have generated an exhaustive Web site (www.maurice-pialat.net) and two DVD box sets. But his name is far from ...

This 1979 film by Maurice Pialat treats youthful sex as the only activity worth pursuing in the provinces, and the major obstacle to escaping from them. In French with subtitles. The Reader is free.

Intended or not, the Criterion Channel's programming of Maurice Pialat and Michael Roemer pairs two auteurs who spoke the same death-riddled language. August's lineup will bring nine features and one ...