Shoot the piano player

Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life.

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"Francois Truffaut's Shoot the piano player"
"Tirez sur le pianiste"
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"Aznavour plays an antihero, playing away in a rundown Parisian cafe, pushed by an ambitious girlfriend to resume a once prominent concert career."
"A café pianist innocently becomes involved with gangsters. His second chance at love and his plans to make a comeback as a concert pianist are ended when his girlfriend is killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight."
"A café pianist, whose past is revealed in a flashback, becomes innocently involved in the dealings of a gang of petty crooks. His second chance at love and his plans to make a comeback as a concert pianist are ended when his girlfriend is killed by a stray bullet during a gunfight."
"A former great piano player tries to make a comeback at the urging of the woman he loves."
""The adventures of a mild-mannered piano player, Charlie, as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair"--DVD sleeve."
"A timid cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. Events force his involvement with gangsters who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the piano player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague."
"A former concert pianist now playing in a run-down cafe must cope with girlfriend's notion of restoring his former fame and his brothers' involvement with gangsters."
"A cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. Events force his involvement with gangsters who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"Charlie is a timid cafe pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who cause him to once again be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"Charlie, a timid piano player in a small Parisian bar, is forced to hide his brother from two gangsters they have double crossed. Charlie later fights with the bar owner and kills him in self-defense. Truffaut described his second film as a "pastiche of the Hollywood B film." Derived from a pulp novel by David Goodis, the film borrows elements of film noir but its style is very much Nouvelle Vague. (Does not circulate)."
"Charlie is a timid cafe pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, who was once a virtuoso who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair."
"This pastiche of gangster film, love story and cabaret film was Truffaut's boldest experiment and is a key New Wave film in its disorienting mixture of moods. Charlie, a honky tonk piano player and concert pianist, is a man divided between timidity and intention - he is always too late. His monologues are often at odds with his actions. Truffaut suggests, through the use of doubling and circularity, that life is repetition. The rapid juxtaposition of tones - from melodrama to comedy to pathos - and the way Truffaut uses character and environment, implicitly questions what usually passes for realism."
"The antihero, playing in Parisian cafe, is pushed by his ambitious girlfriend to resume a once-prominent concert career."
"A timid cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. Events force his involvement with a gang of crooks."
"The antihero, playing in a Parisian cafe, is pushed by his ambitious girlfriend to resume a once-prominent concert career."
"A famous concert pianist takes refuge from his former life by working under a pseudonym in a sleazy Parisian bar. He becomes embroiled in the criminal underworld when he helps his petty crook brothers escape from gangsters, with tragic consequences."
"A timid cafe pianist has given up his career as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. Events force his involvement with gangsters."
"Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"Charlie is a timid café pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which had destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."@en
"Charlie is a timid cafe pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which has destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"Charlie is a timid cafe pianist who has given up his former life as a concert pianist, a career which has destroyed his marriage. However, events which he seems powerless to control force his involvement with a gang of crooks who once again cause him to be responsible for the destruction of his life."
"A cafe pianist becomes involved with gangsters."