Classic French Cinema Discussion Thread

that said, I love Alphaville and my life to live.

he has the same critique as Kubrick and Tarkovsky.

have you had any noticeable examples in which a director grew on you?.

true, but I've heard many people claim they find both too polarizing and can't connect with the material, and I respond watch Stalker.

Truffaut tends to get better as he ages to me at least, Anything past 1966 I love. To be fair I do like the 400 blows.

I read a theory He might've been poisoned by his own government too damnnn ugh, Fassbender is another, that guy did more drugs then a hoker at a bathhouse, but then again this is the same guy who directed 10 movies in a year.

Fassbinder's very hit or miss for me. I do really like Effi Briest and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.

“Realism isn’t what’s happening today, or what happened yesterday. When the camera rolls, there’s no present, there’s no past . . . there’s just the moment we’re rolling. You have to get as close as possible to the truth of that instant.”   Maurice Pialat

 The outstanding Classic French films of Maurice Pialat are timelessly appealing, his works overflow with a sensitive and often intense emotional realism. Pialat had an uncompromising vision, outspoken and passionate his cinematic art has a powerful psychological force, and he has been a huge influence on modern French filmmakers.  
Pialat earned an infamous reputation, being antagonistic both on and off set, he publicly developed a fractious relationship with fellow French filmmakers and even audiences, the director was notorious for his incendiary nature which caused much tension between collaborators, cast and crew.
 His bold non-conformity led to much difficulty in obtaining finance for his film projects,  he wrote and directed only a handful of features but at least half are widely considered masterworks.  Pialat drew on his own life experiences with primary concerns about childhood and family. With a fearless focus on the economic, social and psychological background he composed compassionate unyielding portraits. Highlighted throughout his works is an eruption of glorious emotionally spontaneous moments, uniquely orchestrated by himself. By pressuring his actors Pialat prodded them into accessing much deeper emotions, his improvisations triggered the startling naturalism seen in his films, drawing us in to the eye of his storm.. 

 On famous fellow French filmmakers, in Pialat’s eyes, "Godard was proud to be better known for what he said than what he did,  Malle was a straight-up incompetent,  Truffaut  was fortunate to be making one a year, as his films were so ordinary,  Rivette  a monumentally self-important blowhard, whose quest for some sort of verifiable legacy in the face of Godard’s and Truffaut’s success was accomplished by making aggressively boring films...

Highly Recommended the films of Maurice Pialat.. pictured Loulou (1980)