Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan
Search results
Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life.
Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.
Shoot the Piano Player: Directed by François Truffaut. With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier. A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) concerns a famous concert pianist in Paris who decides to ditch fame and becomes involved with gangster crime instead. A masterpiece of the film noir genre, Francois...
- (30)
- Comedy, Drama
Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Francois Truffaut's second feature, may have puzzled audiences at the time due to its freewheeling shifts in tone, but now it stands out as one of the director's most enchanting works.
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.
Details: 1960, France, 85 mins. Direction: Francois Truffaut. Genre: Drama. Summary: Charlie, a piano player in a bar, and Lena, a waitress, are in love, but their relationship is put to the...
Jul 23, 2013 · Shoot the Piano Player. 1960. France. Directed by Francois Truffaut. These notes accompany screenings of Pierre Etaix’s Happy Anniversary and Francois Truffaut’s </em>Shoot the Piano Player </a> on July 24, 25, and 26 in Theater 3. </p>. Pierre Etaix, now 84, has almost single-handedly kept the concept of physical comedy alive in France ...
Once a successful concert pianist under his birth name Edouard Saroyan, Charlie Koller is now a pianist playing honky-tonk music in a sleazy Paris bar owned and operated by Plyne, and most in Charlie's current life are unaware of his concert-pianist past.
Based on a novel by David Goodis (an American “pulp” writer beloved by the French), it tells of an introverted pianist who after his wife’s suicide (an event for which he holds himself responsible) forgoes a promising concert career to play rinkytink piano in a small-time dive.
