{"id":192,"date":"2007-01-07T21:49:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/192"},"modified":"2009-09-25T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:47:37","slug":"shoot-the-piano-player-1960-francois-truffaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"Shoot The Piano Player (1960, Francois Truffaut)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came out in late 1960, after <em>Breathless<\/em> (which Truffaut wrote), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/416\">400 Blows<\/a><\/em> and <em>Les Mistons<\/em>.  Dawn doesn&#8217;t like it, and the Taschen book I&#8217;m reading on Truffaut says it was largely disliked, misunderstood and ignored (and even <em>Jules &#038; Jim<\/em> did just well enough to break even, no big comeback).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/shootthepianoplayer3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charlie plays piano at a small-time bar, running away from his old life as a concert pianist after his wife Therese killed herself.  He&#8217;s friends with a prostitute (Clarisse) and a bartender (Lena).  Charlie&#8217;s little brother Fido (a kid from <em>400 Blows<\/em>) lives with him, and his other brothers are thieves who run into trouble after screwing over their two scary\/clumsy accomplices, who chase everyone throughout the picture.  In the end, Lena is killed and Charlie returns to work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/shootthepianoplayer2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great bits: Charlie&#8217;s inner-thoughts voiceover, the subtitled singer in his bar, the balance between ridiculous and dangerous maintained by the gangsters, the sudden shifts in tone, the beautiful girls surrounding Charlie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/shootthepianoplayer1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The commentary points out all the mirrors, says Truffaut used lead actors who looked like himself (true of Jean-Pierre Leaud).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/shootthepianoplayer4.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the movie &#8211; it&#8217;s light and short and heartfelt.  But I&#8217;m also still suffering from post <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/180\">Children of Men<\/a><\/em> trauma, and this movie&#8217;s joyful subversion of genre doesn&#8217;t hit hard enough to make an impact.  Maybe when I&#8217;m in a more delicate mood I can appreciate it more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came out in late 1960, after Breathless (which Truffaut wrote), 400 Blows and Les Mistons. Dawn doesn&#8217;t like it, and the Taschen book I&#8217;m reading on Truffaut says it was largely disliked, misunderstood and ignored (and even Jules &#038; Jim did just well enough to break even, no big comeback). Charlie plays piano at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,34,53],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-criterion","tag-france","tag-francois-truffaut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}