Shoot the Piano Player

Shoot the Piano Player French Tirez sur le pianiste UK title Shoot the Pianist is a 1960 French crime drama film directed by Franois Truffaut and starring Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis.

The film shares the novels bleak plot about a man hiding from his shattered life by doing the only thing he knows how to do, while remaining unable to escape the past. However, Truffauts work resolves itself into both a tribute to the American genre of literary and cinematic noir and a meditation on the relationship between art and commercialism.Truffaut significantly changes Charlies personality in Tirez sur le Pianiste. Originally, Goodis Edward Webster Lynn who Truffaut adapts as Charlie is pictured as a relatively strong, selfconfident guy who has chosen his solitude whereas Truffauts Charlie Kohler has found his isolation inevitably he was always shy, withdrawn, reclusive. ........

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