Louis Malle (My Dinner with Andre) film noir classic, with a score by Miles Davis, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet...
Louis Malle (My Dinner with Andre) film noir classic, with a score by Miles Davis, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as a criminal couple. Their plan to commit the perfect murder goes awry when one of them is stuck in an elevator at the scene of the crime and a cascading series of coincidences and consequences unfurls.
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93 %60 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
91 %1,592 reviewsAudience score rating
"A consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"The ambition is bracing, but critical hindsight obscures how exciting Malle's noir thriller is on its own terms."
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Total Film
Total Film"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
Independent"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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The Times
The Times"What a supremely stylish and watchable picture it is."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"These 1950s French noirs abandon the formality of traditional crime films, the almost ritualistic obedience to formula, and show crazy stuff happening to people who seem to be making up their lives as they go along."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Few debuts come punchier, cooler, and more influential than Louis Malle's 1958 thriller about a Parisian murder plan unravelling, scene by fateful scene."
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The Telegraph
The TelegraphElevator to the Gallows | Details
- Rating
- M,
- Runtime
- 92
- Genre
- Drama, Thriller
- Country of origin
- France
