Maurice Pialat

Maurice Pialat was born in Cunlhat, in the Puy-de-Dôme, on 31 August 1925. He studied at the Arts décoratifs and then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and at first devoted himself to painting. He made his first feature film only at the age of forty-three, and he sometimes acted in his own films. In 1987 he received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, amid signs of disapproval from part of the audience. He died in Paris on 11 January 2003, aged seventy-seven.

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• CinemaÀ nos amoursMaurice Pialat · 1983Cinema