A bistro piano player attempts to escape an unhappy past but is drawn into tragic involvement in the present. This multileveled tragicomedy by François Truffaut uses the Hollywood B-thriller as a point of departure with an improvisational tone and mercurial shifts between melodrama and farce. Letterboxed; DVD includes French audio track, English subtitles, commentary, trailer. Cinematography by Raoul Coutard. Stars Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger. Les Films de la Pleiade.