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FRANCE · 1960
Tirez sur le pianiste
Synopsis
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.
Cinema Atlas Connection
The first time I saw it, it completely changed the way I looked at movies. It was huge for me. The idea of taking the crime-film genre and twisting it in ways it shouldn't be twisted—that really informed my work. I wouldn’t have made Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction if not for films like Band of Outsiders, Shoot the Piano Player and Breathless.
Truffaut was a big influence on me. He showed me that you could make a film your own way, mixing genres, being funny, sad, romantic and completely original.
— Truffaut · Rolling Stone: Jim Jarmusch's 10 Favorite Movies