Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · TMDB 7.2 · Tirez sur le pianiste
Directed by François Truffaut
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
Why it matters
Francois Truffaut's second feature, in which a concert pianist hides from his past in a bar and finds himself tangled with gangsters. The film's tonal shifts, from slapstick to tragedy in a single cut, are a masterclass in using the body as a comic and pathetic object at the same...
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Released
- 1960-11-25
- Studio
- Les Films de la Pléiade
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- TMDB score
- 7.2
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