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.
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Stars: Georges Delerue, Ken Russell
Crew: Ken Russell (Director), Stan Morcom (Sound), John Murphy (Sound), Ken Westbury (Cinematography), Gitta Zadek (Editor), Ken Russell (Producer)
Country: United Kingdom
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Studio: BBC
Runtime: 51 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 09, 1966
IMDb: 10
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