Shoot the Piano Player

Following the 400 Blows, Truffaut turned to the principles of the New Wave. A former concert pianist who, since his wife's suicide, plays only in a Paris bar, tries to protect his brothers when they become involved with gangsters. With a loose approach, and with direct influence from Hitchcock and Renoir, Truffaut manages to present a film with a personal style. The final product - comical and ironic as it may be - is also saturated with a tragic feeling of a person whose fate seems to mock him and leaves him rejected by society.