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Shoot the Piano Player 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-order - Release date: 10.11.2026

Original title: Tirez sur le pianiste

Year: 1960
Country: France
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Contents: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515344319

Image: 2.35:1 (2160p)

HDR: -

Audio: French - Uncompressed Mono

Subtitles: English

Age Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama / Thriller

Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger

Director: François Truffaut


Synopsis:

François Truffaut plays the crime genre like jazz with this freewheeling adaptation of a novel by pulp master David Goodis, a film that infuses noir fatalism with a nervy nouvelle-vague freshness. The tragicomic story follows the adventures of timid dance-hall pianist Charlie (Charles Aznavour), who gets caught up in a whirlwind love affair and is inadvertently drawn into a violent underworld by his gangster brothers. With the film’s dazzling mix of Raoul Coutard’s handheld camera work, a wistful score by Georges Delerue, and playfully jagged editing, Truffaut creates a rueful character study shot through with his signature obsessions: cinema, the elusive nature of creativity, and the sting of romantic regret.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring film scholars Peter Brunette and Annette Insdorf
• Introduction by filmmaker Noah Baumbach
• Interviews with cinematographer Raoul Coutard, actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois, and François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman
• Archival interviews with Truffaut on the film and the source novel
• The Music of Georges Delerue, an illustrated audio essay
• Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art featuring scholar Jeff Smith
• Dubois’s screen test
• Trailer
• Plus: An essay by film critic Kent Jones, an interview with Truffaut, and reflections by the director on Aznavour and Dubois