Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan
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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.
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.
A classic French New Wave film by François Truffaut, starring Charles Aznavour as a piano player who gets involved in crime and romance. Watch the trailer, listen to the music, and explore the film's history and context with special features.
- Charlie Koller/Edouard Saroyan
Charlie (Charles Aznavour) is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard (Jean-Jacques Aslanian) and Chico ...
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- Charles Aznavour
- François Truffaut
- Comedy, Drama
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.
Sep 5, 1988 · 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.
François 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 piano player Charlie as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair.
