It opens on a rehearsal of summer-camp theatrics, but Marjorie Morningstar this is not. Seventeen-year-old Suzanne (the incomparable Sandrine Bonnaire, in her first film) rehearses nothing in life, ...

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Instead of pegging our picks to a new release, we’re running through the best movies of 1983 ...

In the clip above, I discuss “À Nos Amours” (“To Our Loves”), from 1983, the greatest, wildest, and most mysterious of the French director Maurice Pialat’s many youth-centered films. Writing in the ...

A repressive family life drives a confused adolescent (Sandrine Bonnaire) into a series of affairs. Father: Maurice Pialat (who also directed). Robert: Dominique Besnehard. Mother: Evelyne Ker. Anne: ...

Three of Maurice Pialat's films are considered to be among the most important French films of the last 50 years: À nos amours (1983), for which he "discovered" actor Sandrine Bonnaire and cast her as ...

The teen-aged Sandrine Bonnaire made her explosive début in this impassioned 1983 melodrama by Maurice Pialat, which is one of the cinema’s greatest depictions of a father-daughter relationship. As ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), qui fait figure de modèle pour Abdelatif Kechiche, est passé, tout au long de sa carrière, pour un cinéaste au talent immense, doublé d'un ours mal léché et colérique avec ...

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