Programmed August 2025

Directed by Maurice Pialat

Featuring Maurice Pialat: Love Exists (2007), a feature-length documentary on Pialat’s life and career “What I mean by realism goes beyond reality,” declared French master Maurice Pialat, whose at once raw and rigorous films capture all the intensity, vivid humanity, brutality, and tenderness of life itself. Born one hundred years ago this August, Pialat was a contemporary of the nouvelle vague, but always stood apart from the movement, pursuing an uncompromising personal vision that had more in common with his artistic forebear Jean Renoir. In masterpieces like We Won’t Grow Old Together , The Mouth Agape , À nos amours , and Van Gogh , Pialat refined a hard-hitting, elliptical style in which searing emotional realism and cutting human truth are prized above all…