Basic Info
Release: January 09, 1966
Runtime: 51 min
Status: Released
Don’t Shoot the Composer
1966
51 min
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.
Genres
Documentary
TV Movie
Production Countries
- United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
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Cast
Georges Delerue
Himself
Ken Russell
Himself
Crew
Ken Russell
Director
Ken Russell
Producer
Ken Westbury
Cinematography
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