Graveyard Poet
9Jan12
My favorite film of the French New Wave. Shoot the Piano Player > Godard
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trolley freak
9Nov11
Truffaut's second feature is one of the key works of the French New Wave. At times bleak, thrilling but always humorous, the film is a loving homage to American gangster pictures. With his lugubrious hangdog expression, Aznavour was an inspired choice for the lead. He's superb as the washed-up classical pianist now working in a cheap bar who inadvertently gets involved in a crime perpetrated by his no-good brothers..
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William Low
31Aug11
Loved the unique storyline,loved the Charlie/Edouard character and the dramatic and subtle ending
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Poughkeepsie
27Apr11
Prime example of the French New Wave, opening sequence especially. Dime store novel action & suspense mixed w/ conversations about marriage & relations b/t men & women. Charles Aznavour is the piano player, crippled by dirty dealings of his family, past love lost & shyness around the woman he loves. Part tribute to genre films & Hitchcock, part comment on art vs. commercialism and how the world sees masculinity.
Graveyard Poet
19Mar11
The crown jewel of the French New Wave and Truffaut's underrated masterpiece--this bittersweet, melancholy film is a comic gangster B-movie, a tragic romance, an innocent drama of the human condition with the timeless absurd hero Charlie.
Danny Kana
26Nov10
Tony - What do you mean you don't "get it". It's a story about a man with big dreams. His dreams get crushed. He wants to be different from his good for nothing criminal brothers. But in the end he realizes he can't get away from it. He's the same as them. He's blood. And he's lost the love of his wife TWICE.
Tony Pauletto
24Sep10
This is only the third Truffaut film I've seen, and easily my least favorite. The irking ramification of his improvisational style is that it seems downright lazy. Although constantly charming and spotted with a few lovely moments, I feel largely unfulfilled. I'm leaving open the idea that I just don't get it.
Adam DiPiazza
20Dec09
At once, both one of Truffaut's most experimental films and one of his most enjoyable.
Crap Monster
3Feb09
Something about this particular Truffaut piece just struck me as incredibly charming on so many levels. On a visual standpoint, I was also impressed with his usage of lighting and contrast that is so prevalent in many of the great black/white canon that had seemed to be diminished by this period of time.
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