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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 1960\u00a0 \u2013 82\u2032 \u2013 Drama, Comedy, Classic, Film Noir, Films & Literature. Fran\u00e7ois 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.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER | 1960\u00a0 \u2013 82\u2032 \u2013 Drama, Comedy, Classic, Film Noir, Films & Literature. Written by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut,\u00a0Marcel Moussy. Based on the Book by: David Goodis. Directed by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut. Starring:\u00a0Charles Aznavour,\u00a0Marie Dubois,\u00a0Nicole Berger,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le Mercier, Boby Lapointe, Alice Sapritch, Serge\u00a0Davri, Claude Mansard. In French with English subtitles. A HBO Max \/ The Criterion Collection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,11,37,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-comedy","category-drama","category-film-noir","category-films-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23006,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23004\/revisions\/23006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut,\u00a0Marcel Moussy.
\nBased on the Book by: David Goodis.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut.
\nStarring:\u00a0Charles Aznavour,\u00a0Marie Dubois,\u00a0Nicole Berger,\u00a0Mich\u00e8le Mercier, Boby Lapointe, Alice Sapritch, Serge\u00a0Davri, Claude Mansard.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA HBO Max \/ The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n