Cinema - Steamboat Bill, Jr., Pierre Boespflug Trio

L'Arsenal Jean-Marie Rausch, 3 Avenue Ney

Steamboat Bill, Jr., released in 1928, is Buster Keaton's last masterpiece of the silent era, just before his alliance with the Hollywood studios. An adventure where the genius of silent cinema, aboard a steamboat cruising along the Mississippi, faces the whimsy of machines and the fury of the elements while pursuing love. It took the full inventiveness of the trio led by pianist and composer Pierre Boespflug, a lover of jazz and improvised music (notably with the Ark Trio and the Couleur.S Sextet), to reinvent the score for this film full of craziness, zeal and gr...