Shoot the Piano Player
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| - | '''David Goodis''' ([[March 2]], [[1917]] – [[January 7]], [[1967]]) was a popular [[United States|American]] [[noir fiction]] writer, best-known for his novel ''Down There'', which was adapted to film as ''[[Shoot the Piano Player]]'' (1960) by [[Truffaut]]). | + | '''''Shoot the Piano Player''''' ([[French language|French]]: '''''Tirez sur le pianiste''''', aka '''''Shoot the Pianist''''') is a [[1960 in film|1960]] [[Cinema of France|French film]] directed by [[François Truffaut]]. |
| - | == Filmography == | + | |
| - | * ''Street of No Return'' (1989) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Descent into Hell]]'' (1986) from ''The Wounded and the Slain'' | + | |
| - | * ''Rue Barbare'' (1984) from ''Street of the Lost'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Moon in the Gutter|The Moon in the Gutter]]'' (1983) | + | |
| - | * ''And Hope to Die'' (1972) from ''Black Friday'' | + | |
| - | * ''Le Casse'' (1971) from ''The Burglar'' | + | |
| - | * "[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]" episode: "An Out for Oscar" ([[April 5]], [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | * ''[[Shoot the Piano Player]]'' ([[Truffaut]]) (1960) from ''Down There'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Burglar]]'' (1957) | + | |
| - | * ''Nightfall'' (1957) | + | |
| - | * ''Section des disparus'' (1956) from ''Of Missing Persons'' | + | |
| - | * ''[[Dark Passage (film)|Dark Passage]]'' (1947) | + | |
| - | * ''[[The Unfaithful]]'' (1947) | + | |
| + | Truffaut's stylized and [[self-reflexive]] [[melodrama]] employs the hallmarks of [[French New Wave]] cinema: extended [[voice-over]]s, out-of-sequence shots, sudden [[jump cuts]], and more. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ==Plot== | ||
| + | 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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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.
Plot
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.
