Shoot the Piano Player

François Truffaut (director)
Charles Aznavour (starring)

Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1960. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film.

An early Truffaut masterpiece, one of the great French noirs, based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis.

Criterion notes: "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 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. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague."

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #135475]