Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection
by Louis Malle
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Actor: Georges Poujouly, Jean Wall, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Yori BertinDirector: Louis Malle
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Early effort for great director
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is very fun. Though a crime drama, it is in many ways a comedy of errors as well as psychodrama. As such, it is quite original for its time: there are events, but also accidents that lead to pretty serious consequences, to say the least. I don't want to reveal the plot - but the elevator scene has to be seen to be believed.
The actors, esp., Jeanne Moreau, are very good. It also evokes late 1950s Paris very well. But the best thing is the sound track, by Miles Davis, who happened to be in Paris for a failed tour, so he just came up with the music.
Recommended.
Summary of Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection
In this, his debut feature film, director Louis Malle captures the hidden beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the brilliant camerawork of Henri Deca?, and the musical force of Miles Davis in a tightly constructed film noir experience that launched his and Moreau's careers.Elevator to the Gallows is many things: A tight, delicious crime thriller; the debut of director Louis Malle (Zazie dans le metro, Atlantic City, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, and many more works of subtle genius); a movie with perhaps the greatest jazz soundtrack of all time, created improvisationally by trumpeter Miles Davis; but above all, Elevator to the Gallows is the blooming of Jeanne Moreau to the status of true movie star, launching her on a career that included Jules & Jim, La notte, and La Femme Nikita. After killing his lover's husband, Julien (Maurice Ronet, Purple Noon) gets trapped in an elevator, forcing him to miss his rendezvous with Florence (Moreau) and allowing his car to be stolen by a joy-riding young couple. From there, the movie splits into three directions: Julien's efforts to escape; Florence wandering the streets, trying not to believe that Julien has abandoned her; and the car thieves, who get caught up in a murder of their own. The movie skillfully fuses Hitchcockian suspense with intimate psychodrama. As she stalks through the night, Moreau is a vision of tortured heartbreak, her woeful eyes and lush, sensuous lips illuminated by neon signs and baleful streetlamps. This is pure cinematic pleasure, visual beauty fused with taut, edge-of-your-seat storytelling.
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