Crime! Beautiful women! Goons! Golden Age of Hollywood montages! Ennui!
Truffaut really was the first to deconstruct and reconstruct all of cinema into something uniquely his own. Shoot the Piano Player seamlessly walks the line between ridiculous and compelling and ends up as genius.
Truffaut remains my favorite overall filmmaker in the Nouvelle Vague. You can feel his bridge between Hitchcock and Spielberg in every frame.
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