Pialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay.
Maurice Pialat
Director
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Alien: Specimen61%
L'Adversaire66%
Puncture66%
The Surrender58%
Nocebo60%
Junior66%
The Deadly Affair62%
Arenas mortales62%
Duelles63%
Fedora67%
Suburbicon58%
Alien: Containment61%
Come Play64%
Maniac61%
Inspecteur Lavardin62%
The Unholy65%
Butterfly Kisses59%
The Dogs66%
La Maison assassinée66%
