Tirez sur le pianiste
François Truffaut
Charlie Kohler plays piano in a band led by Plyne. He is not very talkative and has some rather strange brothers – Chico, Momo, and little Fido – mixed up in gangster dealings... He flirts with Clarisse, a cute prostitute living next door... And he fascinates Lena, a young barmaid, who is in love with him. She knows that his real name is Edouard Saroyan, that in another life he was a greatly acclaimed pianist, married to a woman named Thérésa...
With : Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Boby Lapointe
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy, d'après le roman "Down There" de David Goodis
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : Jacques Gallois et Jean Philippe
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Cécile Decugis et Claudine Bouché
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy, d'après le roman "Down There" de David Goodis
Image : Raoul Coutard
Sound : Jacques Gallois et Jean Philippe
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Cécile Decugis et Claudine Bouché
Production : Les Films de la Pléiade
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
After the great success of The 400 Blows, Truffaut decided to momentarily set aside his autobiographical inspiration and adapt a crime novel to the screen, giving it a lighter, more modern tone and a narration that showed us a new side of his talents as a "Nouvelle Vague" filmmaker. "The decision to make a "Serie Noir" after the success of The 400 Blows was quite a statement. At a time when the genre symbolized "old-school" cinema and he was still relatively unknown by the critics, it was a daring way of reclaiming a certain "school" of film that Truffaut had often gone to see: American film noir." (François Guérif) "This time I wanted to please the diehards, and only them, even if it meant displeasing the audiences who had loved The 400 Blows. (...) In the heat of the brawls, the settling of scores, the kidnappings, the car chases, all that's talked about is love: sexual, sentimental, physical, moral, social, marital, extramarital love, and so on..." (F. Truffaut)