Elevator to the Gallows (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 6, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeanne Moreau & Maurice Ronet | |
Performer: | Georges Poujouly | |
Directed by | Louis Malle | |
Screenwriting by | Louis Malle & Roger Nimier | |
Composition by | Miles Davis | |
Story by | Noel Calef | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Decaë |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A classic European film noir with an irresistible score by Miles Davis, it builds tension from a series of seemingly minor mistakes that echo the political/military context of the postwar era.
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Seattle Times
The film's alchemic blend of Bressonian rigor, Hitchcockian suspense, and overall proto-Nouvelle Vague cool more than compensates for its straightforward plotting ...
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Village Voice
[A] fantastic thriller that more than satisfies on the nail-biting suspense level while also stressing intimacy, character, and realism...
Premiere
5 stars out of 5 -- The ambition is bracing, but critical hindsight obscures how exciting Malle’s noir thriller is on its own terms.
Total Film
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS is as elegantly fatalistic as it sounds. Made in 1957, at a turning point in French cinematic history, it's saturated with the romantic atmosphere of Paris.
Los Angeles Times
4 stars out of 4 -- Louis Malle made his directorial debut with this taut classic.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/4 --
Elevator to the Gallows, killer stuff.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
This psychological thriller is imbued with a wonderful Parisian atmosphere and a moody, improvisational score by legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. A beautiful woman, Florence, and her lover, Julien, plan to murder her husband (who happens to be Julien's boss as well), so they can be together. After carefully carrying out the crime, Julien gets stuck inside the elevator when the power is turned off. The film takes off in a number of surprising twists and turns, one of which includes a young couple who steal Julien's car. They take a ride outside the city and kill a German couple in a hotel, a crime the police eventually pin on Julien. However, Jeanne Moreau's performance as Florence wandering around nighttime Paris in a sad, desperate search for her missing lover, with Davis' haunting score in the background, heightens the tension and suspense of the film and reveals the story's emotional core.
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