![]() ![]() Truffaut first read David Goodis's novel in the mid-1950s while shooting Les Mistons when his wife Madeleine Morgenstern read it and recommended it to him. ![]() Jean-Jacques Aslanian as Richard Saroyan.Charles Aznavour as Charlie Kohler / Edouard Saroyan.Originally, Goodis' Edward Webster Lynn (whom Truffaut adapts as Charlie) is “pictured as a relatively strong, self-confident guy who has chosen his solitude Truffaut’s Charlie Kohler has found his isolation inevitably he was always shy, withdrawn, reclusive.” Cast Truffaut significantly changes Charlie's personality in Tirez sur le Pianiste. However, Truffaut's work resolves itself into both a tribute to the American genre of literary and cinematic noir and a meditation on the relationship between art and commercialism. ![]() The film shares the novel's bleak plot about a man hiding from his shattered life by doing the only thing he knows how to do, while remaining unable to escape the past. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled. The waitress, Lena ( Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. ![]() A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide - stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. ![]()
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