Don’t Shoot the Composer

1966
7.9| 0h51m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 09 January 1966 Released
Producted By: BBC
Country: United Kingdom
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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.

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Ken Russell

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BBC

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Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.