Taglines: A Film for Adults.
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie’s brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie’s real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife’s suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena…
The concept of “auteur”, which the New Wave presents to cinema, has the idea that the writer and director of the movie is the same person, and that the name of the movie creator is again the director. Accepting Alexandre Astruc’s assertion that the director can use the camera like a pencil, he thinks to bring this idea to life. Truffaut Tirez reinterprets the novel he inspired in “Sur le Pianiste”.
Truffaut especially uses the character of Charlie (Charles Aznavour) as a weaker character than in the novel and distributes this dominance to other characters. For example, female characters are designed more powerful than in the novel. “There are no works” that are constantly being discussed in the New Wave stream to make these choices. There are writers! ”is actually a touch to the point. The director is quite free to reinterpret a text already written.
The scenario even changes a few more times during shooting. In one of his interviews, Truffaut says that he did not follow any of the classic narrative criteria in the shootings, as he wanted Tirez sur le pianiste to reflect him completely. However, it is impossible to say that there is no Hitchcock effect in this movie which contains the first murder scene he used.
Tirez Sur le Pianiste (1960)
Directed by: François Truffaut
Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Richard Kanayan, Albert Rémy, Jean-Jacques Aslanian, Daniel Boulanger
Screenplay by: François Truffaut
Production Design by: Jacques Mély
Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard
Film Editing by: Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis
Makeup Department: Jacqueline Pipard
Music by: Georges Delerue
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cocinor
Release Date: November 25, 1960
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