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Shoot the Piano Player

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 6:14 AMNo Comment

Why I love Truffaut: he doesn’t feel the need to explain everything, and if he wants to get into a 20-minute flashback in a movie that’s only 84 minutes long to begin with, he just does it. It’s not much, as a story, this one, and it does get a bit heavy-handed and by-the-numbers at the end, but until the last five minutes, it’s everything I always dig about Truffaut — it has a sense of humor and it’s interested in having a conversation with the viewer instead of lecturing, DE SICA. (1/4/06)

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