Maurice Pialat
Maurice Pialat (31 August 1925 – 11 January 2003) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films. His work is often described as being "realist",Maurice Pialat: A Cinema of Surrender at Rouge though many film criticsTribute to Maurice Pialat at Senses of Cinema acknowledge that it does not fit the traditional definition of realism.