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Cinema - Steamboat Bill, Jr., Pierre Boespflug Trio
Culture · Tuesday, November 3 · 20:00 · Metz
L'Arsenal Jean-Marie Rausch, 3 Avenue Ney
Steamboat Bill, Jr., made in 1928, is Buster Keaton's last masterpiece of the Golden Age, just before his alliance with the major Hollywood studios. An adventure where the genius of silent cinema, aboard a paddle steamer on the Mississippi, faces the quirks of machines, the fury of the elements, while pursuing love. It took the full ingenuity 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 music of this film full of madness, gr…
