What is Shoot the Piano Player / The Last Metro about?

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER, 1960, Janus Films, 92 min. Director François Truffaut. This, his own second movie, is both: a stylistic tour de force filled with innovative visual ideas, but also a longing, bittersweet character study of uncommon depth and resonance. Charles Aznavour is a washed-up concert pianist unable to return to his former glory due to connections with gangsters and other nefarious types; Marie Dubois is the woman who loves him. A long confession scene is Truffaut’s tribute to Ingrid Bergman’s 10 minute confession in Hitchcock’s UNDER CAPRICORN. Adapted from the great novel Down There by David Goodis. THE LAST METRO (LE DERNIER METRO), 1980, Janus Films, 131 min. Dir. François Truffaut. During the German occupation of Paris, a theater company struggles to produce a new play while its director is forced to hide in the basement, leaving his wife (Catherine Deneuve) to carry on an affair with the new leading man (Gerard Depardieu).

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What is Shoot the Piano Player / The Last Metro about?: SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER, 1960, Janus Films, 92 min. Director François Truffaut. This, his own second movie, is both: a stylistic tour de force filled with innovative visual ideas, but also a longing, bittersweet character study of uncommon depth and resonance. Charles Aznavour is a washed-up concert pianist unable to return to his former glory due to connections with gangsters and other nefarious types; Marie Dubois is the woman who loves him. A long confession scene is Truffaut’s tribute to Ingrid Bergman’s 10 minute confession in Hitchcock’s UNDER CAPRICORN. Adapted from the great novel Down There by David Goodis.

THE LAST METRO (LE DERNIER METRO), 1980, Janus Films, 131 min. Dir. François Truffaut. During the German occupation of Paris, a theater company struggles to produce a new play while its director is forced to hide in the basement, leaving his wife (Catherine Deneuve) to carry on an affair with the new leading man (Gerard Depardieu).