Shoot the Piano Player

François Truffaut, 1960

Spine #315

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Drama / Thriller / Crime

Criterion TMDB

Directed by François Truffaut

Cinematography Raoul Coutard

Edited by Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis

Cast Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Richard Kanayan, Albert Rémy

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David Remnick actor

“I love French New Wave films, Godard, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Rivette, all of them. And one of the ones that I saw earliest in my life, when I was a teenager, was Shoot The Piano Player. I think I learned about it from Bob Dylan’s liner notes in an early album. A great, simple melodrama, and Charles Aznavour is absolutely wonderful in the title role.”

David Remnick