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Don’t Shoot the Composer
DON’T SHOOT THE COMPOSER is far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue. It also serves as a calling card for Ken Russell, whose work would define the 1970s as Delerue’s did in the 1960s. It begins with a sly work of pastiche, parodying the conventions of French noir. It goes onto encompass slapstick, verité scenes of the Delerue family and a harrowing montage of the Vietnam War. This eclectic approach gives us a sense of the different facets of Delerue’s life- his love of cinema, his home life, his work ethic. It also prefigures Russell’s feature length biopics of Mahler and Liszt, though in a more modest- and lucid- fashion.
| Release : | 1966 |
| Rating : | 7.9 |
| Studio : | BBC, |
| Crew : | Cinematography, Director, |
| Cast : | Georges Delerue Ken Russell |
| Genre : | Documentary TV Movie |
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Beautiful, moving film.
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
