Shoot the Piano Player (Double-DVD)
Francois Truffaut, Brilliant Director Who Gave You the Award Winning "The 400 Blows", Now Brings to the Screen a Fascinating New Work That Plays in Many Keys...All of Them Delightful!
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DVD Details
- Audio Commentary by Film Scholars Peter Brunette and Annette Insdorf
- Theatrical Trailer
- Exclusive Interviews with Actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois and Director of Photography Raoul Coutard
- Rare Interview with Truffaut Collaborator Suzanne Schiffman
- 28-Page Booklet with an Interview with Truffaut
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 6, 2005
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Charles Aznavour | |
| Performer: | Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier & Marie DuBois | |
| Directed by | François Truffaut |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Sophomore outings by major directors don't get much riskier or more playful than this....He'd never again get so experimental... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
A distinctively postwar Parisian creation, coldblooded and sentimental and wounded and whimsical, all at the same time.
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Salon.com
It's an exciting film, a film in which you feel the director in every moment, in the jerky, jazzy, throwaway style and the tough, semi-private language, and in the particular brand of sharp good humour, off-savoury rather than exactly 'bitter.
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The Spectator
Made with enthusiasm and audacity, it still seems fresh.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
A superb combination of genre movie and Truffaut's special brand of perfectly observed, humanist detail.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: A- --
It's my favorite Truffaut film, not because it's the best but because it's the most enjoyable.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
The determined jollity of Georges Delerue's saloon piano score, which later opens up to encompass a wide world of romanticism, sets the tone for Francois Truffaut's audacious second feature, made in 1960.
Chicago Tribune
Description by OLDIES.com:
Francois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague.
Product Description:
A former concert pianist, now the piano player in a seedy Parisian bar, is surrouned by gansters and hoodlums. He is befriended by a woman who tries in vain to restore him to his former glory, but his own timidity and inability to act lead to tragic consequences for both.
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