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FRANCE · 1960
Tirez sur le pianiste
French New Wave
redemption through reinvention
crime and gangsters
familial obligation
love and romance
music as escape
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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.
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I probably saw 'Shoot the Piano Player' when I was a teenager. And it was certainly one of those films that just felt like, 'Oh, this is a way to do it.' It's like you can be funny and violent and sad and poetic, and it can all be mixed together in the same thing. And it can be completely original.
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