Elevator to the Gallows (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- 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:
Striking to look at, with each frame resembling an intricately designed photograph ...
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Electric Sheep
This taut suspense film is like none of his other works.
USA Today
Rating: 4/4 --
Elevator to the Gallows, killer stuff.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 5/5 --
Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) was the perfect opening to the French New Wave in 1958, sashaying in to a jazz score from Miles Davis and starring Jeanne Moreau as a mistress-in-peril.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Louis Malle's supremely stylish New Wave thriller combines Miles Davis's music, Henri Decae's wonderfully evocative black-and-white cinematography of Paris and plenty of close-ups of a young Jeanne Moreau looking very anguished.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 6.9/10 --
The experiencing of watching Malle's 1958 debut is akin to that of watching a preordained outcome, much like an academic thesis, work itself out, with much of the suspense residing all in the journey rather than the destination.
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Paste Magazine
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
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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