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     • 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 Truffaut's filmmaking reflects heavy influence from US low-budget crime dramas of that time.
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   Is shoot the piano player a gangster movie?

   • 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 Truffaut's filmmaking reflects heavy influence from US low-budget crime dramas of that time.

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   Why was shoot the piano player made?

   • Truffaut said that Shoot the Piano Player was made in reaction to The Four Hundred Blows, which he deemed “so French,” adding that he “needed to show that I had been influenced by American cinema.”

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   Is shoot the piano player a good movie?

   • A wild mixture of gangster thriller, slapstick comedy, and bittersweet romance, Shoot the Piano Player was one of the signal works of the French “New Wave,” but it took a while for some critics and audiences to get used to a film that flew in the face of traditional dramatic expectations so broadly and mixed genre elements so freely.

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   Is shoot the piano player a modern classic?

   • Hailed today as a modern classic, Shoot the Piano Player is a pluperfect example of a film “ahead of its time.”

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   • Still, this film is enjoyable and seems fresh for its age, not unlike 400. Shoot the Piano Player, an early effort from Francois Truffaut, is a New Wave nod to American film noir. Set primarily in the streets of Paris, a former concert painist (Charles Aznavour) has been reduced to playing dance tunes in a local bar.

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   Who plays Charlie Kohler in shoot the piano player?

   • Shot in classically free New Wave style by the gifted Raoul Coutard, Shoot the Piano Player stars the iconic French cabaret singer Charles Aznavour as Charlie Kohler, a seemingly nondescript pianist who pounds the keyboard with fatalistic indifference in a run-down bar in the slums of Paris.

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   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.

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   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...

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   • Actors: Charles Aznavour

   • Director: François Truffaut
   • Category: Comedy, Drama

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   Mar 21, 2018 · Shot in classically free New Wave style by the gifted Raoul Coutard, Shoot the Piano Player stars the iconic French cabaret singer Charles Aznavour as Charlie Kohler, a seemingly nondescript pianist who pounds the keyboard with fatalistic indifference in a run-down bar in the slums of Paris.

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7. www.criterion.com › films › 764Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - The Criterion Collection

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   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.

   • Actors: Charlie Koller/Edouard Saroyan

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   Hailed today as a modern classic, Shoot the Piano Player is a pluperfect example of a film “ahead of its time.” 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 ...

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   Sep 2, 2008 · The slight singer-songwriter, playing Charlie, an ivory-tickler at a dive who abandoned his career as a famous concert pianist after a family tragedy, may not be as indelibly associated with ...

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    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.