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AV Club opens its positive review with this:
Over the course of 81 of the briskest minutes in cinema, François Truffaut's Shoot The Piano Player contains flashbacks, jump-cuts, weird superimpositions, tender love scenes, broad slapstick, a snowbound shootout with feckless gangsters, a sing-along in a Parisian piano bar, and countless nods to American noirs and genre films. Truffaut himself claimed that his exhilarating second feature could be heard as a love story and viewed as a gangster noir, though it's a thrill to witness these aural and visual elements smashed together.Senses of Cinema calls it "a cheerfully ramshackle affair, alternately light and serious, a playful film". Empire Online gives it 5 out of 5 stars and concludes by saying it is "A superb combination of genre movie and Truffaut's special brand of perfectly observed, humanist detail." Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 91%. It's listed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
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...the piano player should be the last person to shoot.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely!
DeleteI'd heard of this, but I realized it was when I was surfing for something to watch. Did you like it?
ReplyDeleteYes. It's interesting. There's so much there, especially considering how short a film it is. That director's movies The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim are also on HBO Max, and I liked both of those, too. He co-starred in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
DeleteI haven't seen this since college!
ReplyDeleteI had never even heard of it 'til I got this book.
DeleteHmmm very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm still tryinta figure out what French New Wave is...
DeleteInteresting. The world looks so different in B/W. And they all seem so "polite".
ReplyDeleteB&W does give a different "feel", doesn't it?!
DeleteFor years this was our favorite film, and we would go to see it whenever it was screened (such as at college film series in the days before personal film players became available). I especially love the song in the bar — such ARGOT! I think it’s called “framboise.”
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This one was new to me, but I see how it could become a favorite. It was fun to watch :)
DeleteIt was certainly unusual, at least the nearly 2 minutes of the trailer that I watched.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot in this movie.
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