Don’t Shoot the Composer (1966)

ALL 01/09/1966 (en) Documentary, TV Movie 51 Min
  • Release
    01/09/1966
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Don’t Shoot the Composer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Ken Russell

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Gitta Zadek

    Editor

  4. Ken Russell

    Producer



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Don’t Shoot the Composer (1966) 51 Min

ALL 01/09/1966 (en)
Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 01/09/1966
  • Production
    BBC
  • Original title Don’t Shoot the Composer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Ken Russell

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Gitta Zadek

    Editor

  4. Ken Russell

    Producer