The Village Voice, July 7th, 2004
The context of no context: A self-questioning French director who insisted on imperfection
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF: THE FILMS OF MAURICE PIALAT
July 9 through 12, and 19 through 29, Walter Reade
TO THE BITTER END
Maurice Pialat, who died last year at age 77, was a Euro-film conundrum-hailed yet reviled, widely distributed yet rarely appreciated, popular yet biliously anti-populist, high-profile yet contemptuous of the movie culture around him. Even by the standards of French nose-thumbing, Pialat was a thorny malcontent (winning at Cannes in 1987 for Underthe Sun of Satan, he woundup his dry...
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