FILM DIRECTOR

Maurice Pialat

1925 - 2003

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Maurice Pialat (French: [pjala]; 31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as "realist", though many film critics acknowledge it does not fit the traditional definition of realism. Pialat's films are said to have dispensed with mannerisms, and his everyday stories tell the bittersweet nature of the French petty bourgeoisie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Pialat has received more than 196,800 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Maurice Pialat is the 430th most popular film director (down from 398th in 2019), the 2,441st most popular biography from France (down from 2,223rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Film Director.

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Over the past year Maurice Pialat has had the most page views in the with 66,630 views, followed by English (21,720), and German (3,508). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (65.66%), Basque (62.17%), and Portuguese (56.29%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Maurice Pialat ranks 430 out of 2,041. Before him are Michael Anderson, Taylor Hackford, Jean Eustache, Chuck Lorre, Ladislao Vajda, and Oskar Fischinger. After him are David Yates, Takashi Miike, Walter Lantz, Bo Widerberg, Delmer Daves, and Yuri Norstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Maurice Pialat ranks 136. Before him are Toshio Iwatani, Shigeko Higashikuni, Louison Bobet, John Guillermin, Henning Larsen, and Flannery O'Connor. After him are Pavel Belyayev, Aldo Ciccolini, Art Pepper, René Moawad, Jean d'Ormesson, and Roger Hanin. Among people deceased in 2003, Maurice Pialat ranks 93. Before him are Mohamed Choukri, Canaan Banana, Rik Van Steenbergen, Kalpana Chawla, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and Gertrude Ederle. After him are Massimo Girotti, John Ritter, Johanna Budwig, Robert Brown, William Steig, and Jacques Deray.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Pialat ranks 2,441 out of 6,770. Before him are René Mayer (1895), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989), Margaret of Bourbon (1438), Pierre Renoir (1885), Chilperic II of Burgundy (450), and Judoc (600). After him are Maximilien Luce (1858), Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Geneviève Page (1927), Jo Schlesser (1928), Bérenger Saunière (1852), and Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Maurice Pialat ranks 60. Before him are Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Michel Gondry (1963), Aleksandar Petrović (1929), Claude Zidi (1934), Édouard Molinaro (1928), and Jean Eustache (1938). After him are Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Louis Feuillade (1873), Bertrand Blier (1939), René Laloux (1929), and Philippe Garrel (1948).

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Filmography

A Nos Amours
Director
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Nov 16o 19836.815 / 10
Under the Sun of Satan
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Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
May 14o 19876.023 / 10
Police
Director
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Sep 4o 19855.949 / 10