Shoot the Piano Player

1960 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 88% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 21740 21.7K

based on novel or book jazz jazz singer or musician jazz club organized crime black and white

Plot summary

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

Director

François Truffaut Photo
François Truffaut

Top cast

Catherine Lutz Photo
Catherine Lutz as Mammy
Claude Heymann Photo
Claude Heymann as Lars Schmeel
Michèle Mercier Photo
Michèle Mercier as Clarisse
Marie Dubois Photo
Marie Dubois as Léna
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
746.94 MB
1280*548
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 1
1.35 GB
1916*820
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 21 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by faraaj-1 6 / 10

Hit and miss

I read mixed reviews about this film - some interesting elements but it doesn't work completely as a whole. Having seen it recently, I would tend to agree with these comments. Shoot the Piano Player is about a famous piano player who falls in love with and loses two women who care for him. After the death of the first, his wife, he changes his name and becomes a piano player in an obscure bar where he meets the second love of his life, a waitress. There are some sub-plots regarding his criminal brothers, the kidnapping of his son and the bar-owner also falling for the same waitress.There are very interesting individual scenes - interesting, not brilliant. On the whole, the film is a mish-mash of ideas and plots, all told very confusingly. Even if the narration had been more coherent, another problem is the visual look. There are noir themes in the narrative, but the visual style is in no way reminiscent of those films. It is more rooted in realism but has the visual look of a TV film.I don't know! I'm still confused by this film...
Reviewed by daustin 8 / 10

Remarkably enjoyable and fresh

Sometimes you watch a classic for the first time and you don't understand the hype. This time I was more than pleasantly surprised. Wonderful, whimsical and sad little film noir. This movie completely plays with the audience, but in a loving way. The actors and actresses are almost uniformly great. Some incredible faces. Aznavour in particular has an amazingly distinctive look. Be warned, it takes about ten minutes to have an idea of what is going on. Just hang in there and go with it. Highly recommend.
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