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Shoot the Piano Player
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| Shoot the Piano Player | |
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 The original theatrical poster. |
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| Directed by | François Truffaut |
| Produced by | Pierre Braunberger |
| Written by | François Truffaut Marcel Moussy David Goodis (novel) |
| Starring | Charles Aznavour Marie Dubois Albert Rémy |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
| Editing by | Claudine Bouché Cécile Decugis |
| Distributed by | Cocinor |
| Release date(s) | November 25, 1960 |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| IMDb profile | |
Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste, aka Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French film directed by François Truffaut.
Truffaut's stylized and self-reflexive melodrama employs the hallmarks of French New Wave cinema: extended voice-overs, out-of-sequence shots, sudden jump cuts, and more.
The film is loosely based on the novel Down There by David Goodis. It shares the novel's bleak plot about a man hiding from his shattered life by doing the only thing he knows how to do, while remaining unable to escape the past. However, Truffaut's work resolves itself into both a tribute to the American genre of literary and cinematic noir and a meditation on the relationship between art and commercialism.
A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Eduard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled.
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| 1950s | Une Visite • Les Mistons • Une Histoire d'eau • The 400 Blows |
| 1960s | Shoot the Piano Player • Jules and Jim • Antoine and Colette • The Soft Skin • Fahrenheit 451 • The Bride Wore Black • Stolen Kisses • Mississippi Mermaid |
| 1970s | The Wild Child • Bed and Board • Two English Girls • Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me • Day for Night • The Story of Adele H. • Small Change • The Man Who Loved Women • The Green Room • Love on the Run |
| 1980s | The Last Metro • The Woman Next Door • Confidentially Yours |
| Screenplay only | L'Agence Magique • Breathless • The Little Thief • Belle Époque |
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