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  • During the Q&A following the screening, we also learned that this project was once in the hands of Maurice Pialat, who made several attempts at it.

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 11. 2007

  • After his death, his widow Sylvie turned it over to Grandperret, who had worked for Pialat early on.

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 11. 2007

  • Nick Pinkerton at Reverse Shot: Ceylan is not Pialat, not Antonioni, and certainly no 'master.'

    GreenCine Daily: Climates. 2006

  • Its an interesting start for Pialat, but on reflection not quite as odd as I initially though.

    10/29: Invocation of My Demon Brother; L'amour existe; The Wild Blue Yonder Ed Howard 2007

  • Indeed, for his first film, Pialat forgoes narrative altogether, crafting a free-associative essay film that has much more in common with the first efforts of Alain Resnais than I ever would've guessed based on their respective later work.

    10/29: Invocation of My Demon Brother; L'amour existe; The Wild Blue Yonder Ed Howard 2007

  • Its an interesting start for Pialat, but on reflection not quite as odd as I initially though.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • Indeed, for his first film, Pialat forgoes narrative altogether, crafting a free-associative essay film that has much more in common with the first efforts of Alain Resnais than I ever would've guessed based on their respective later work.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • After all this, Pialat suggests, the workers are released into the relative peace of old age, which he depicts as a pale shadow of childhood's carefree spirit.

    10/29: Invocation of My Demon Brother; L'amour existe; The Wild Blue Yonder Ed Howard 2007

  • The film is an endless series of such stately tracking shots, the grand romance of the camera's gestures serving as a counterpoint to the general squalor that Pialat is depicting.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • After all this, Pialat suggests, the workers are released into the relative peace of old age, which he depicts as a pale shadow of childhood's carefree spirit.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007

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