Maurice Pialat’s last film, the stinging 1995 family drama “Le Garcu,” is only now getting its Chicago theatrical premiere, during Facets Cinematheque’s superb Pialat retrospective. That seems strange ...

Gerard Depardieu and Sylvie Pialat, the widow of French director Maurice Pialat, were also lauded at the Switzerland Film Fest. By Eric J. Lyman LOCARNO, Switzerland – French acting icon Gerard ...

The Museum of the Moving Image has just released a new trailer for its upcoming retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which runs October 16 – November 1. The career of ...

Maurice Pialat, a prickly but influential French film director, sometime actor and former painter who earned the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or for his 1987 “Under the Sun of Satan” ...

With Gérard Depardieu, Géraldine Pailhas, Antoine Pialat, Dominique Rocheteau. In Pialat's final film, shot in Cunlhat, the village of his birth, and a holiday retreat in Mauritius, he returned to the ...

A retrospective called Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat opens tomorrow at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque and runs until December 5. A second retrospetive on Pialat is also screening at New York’s ...

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 boxed sets. But his name is far from ...

For over half a century, Gérard Depardieu stood as a towering figure in French cinema, a titan known for his commanding physical presence, instinct, sensibility and remarkable versatility. Trumps call ...

The mark of a great actor is his or her ability to inspire great directors, and Gérard Depardieu has borne that mark of greatness from the very start of his movie career. Marguerite Duras, one of the ...

Cannes winner Maurice Pialat, painter turned actor and tyrannical but influential filmmaker, died Saturday in Paris of kidney failure. He was 77. A demanding individual whose talent was equaled only ...