The National Cinema Museum pays homage to the film director Maurice Pialat

The National Cinema Museum will pay homage to the director Maurice Pialat who died in 2003, with an exhibition of his work entitled Sous le soleil de Pialat (Under the Sun of Pialat).  The exhibition will open on Monday 1 March 2010 at 3.30p.m. in Theatre Three at Cinema Massimo with a showing of Under the Sun of Satan/Sotto il sole di Satana, which won the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987.  The exhibition will be held until Friday 12 March 2010 and will show all of Pialat’s films. Entrance: €7.00/5.00/3.50.

The exhibition dedicated to Maurice Pialat is a project by the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Medici (French Academy in Rome), coordinated by Francesca Bolognesi and put together with the collaboration of the National Cinema Museum, the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna (Bologna Film Library), and the Délégation Culturelle de Turin (French Cultural Embassy in Italy). We would like to thank the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (Ministry for Foreign Affairs) and Gaumont for their kind collaboration.