Don´t Shoot the Composer (Ken Russell, 1966) - Documentary about Georges Delerue

This documentary 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.

Director: Ken Russell.

Stars: Georges Delerue, Ken Russell, John Drummond.

Subtitled in English,

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/6908806564518