Shoot The Piano Player

Shoot The Piano Player. Shoot the Piano Player Mountain Xpress A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier

François Truffaut's second feature film after his career-defining debut Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960) is a cheerfully ramshackle affair, alternately light and serious, a playful film from a director who had proven what he could do after a long period of writing as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma and other journals, who now. Synopsis: Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar

Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Turner Classic Movies

A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother. 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 Synopsis: Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar

Shoot the Piano Player (French Tirez sur le pianiste) is a 1960 French crime drama film. A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother. He has managed to keep his past a secret, until, unexpectedly, one of his.

30 Great Movies That Are Under 90 Minutes Page 2 Taste of Cinema Movie Reviews and Classic. 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 François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film