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.
Unfortunately the movie Don’t Shoot the Composer is not yet available on HBO Max.
Sound | Stan Morcom | Sound |
Crew | Ken Westbury | Cinematography |
Editing | Gitta Zadek | Editor |
Directing | Ken Russell | Director |
Sound | John Murphy | Sound |
Production | Ken Russell | Producer |