In backwards-thinking terms, Malle was the Tarantino of his day, giving French cinema a creative, influential shot in the arm that opened new horizons in directorial thinking.
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08/18/05
Elevator to the Gallows (1957)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:38
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 24, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
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Reviews for Elevator to the Gallows
... a little gem...
07/30/05
A consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s.
07/28/05
Top CriticWhat makes this swooningly atmospheric movie a true romance is the face of Jeanne Moreau in close-up, at once impassive, devious and tragic as she wanders the rain-soaked streets of nighttime Paris.
07/28/05
The tasty 1957 noir thriller that introduced the world to French filmmaker Louis Malle, who at the time was a 24-year-old assistant director for Jacques Cousteau.
07/22/05
Top CriticPart film noir, part melodrama, part Hitchcockian thriller, the film strives to be anything and everything and in many ways succeeds.
07/18/05
Don't miss this opportunity to see the movie that launched the legend of Jeanne Moreau.
07/07/05
Top CriticNo review available.
07/06/05
Moreau’s nocturnal wanderings are made unbearably poignant by an exquisite Miles Davis jazz score that became famous in its own right.
06/27/05
Top CriticThe crisp black-and-white cinematography is the stand out, hugely benefiting from filming on location.... Adding to the melancholy is Miles Davis' sparingly used score.
06/24/05
If you've never seen this 1957 film-noir gem, you should be seduced by the cool nocturnal cinematography of Henri Decae and the languid improvisational sounds of Miles Davis.
06/23/05
Top CriticA plan for a perfect murder goes wildly wrong in this 1958 melodrama by one of France's great filmmakers.
06/23/05
It's precisely Malle's omnivorous appetite that makes his first feature, adapted from a policier, so delectable, one stuffed with many sumptuous sights and sounds.
06/22/05
Despite the film's misleading title and involuted story, it works.
06/16/05
Incapable of spreading Moreau's passion and sadness to its crime-thriller narrative.
06/11/05
No review available.
04/30/04
Louis Malle was just 25 when he made this moody piece of Gallic pulp fiction about a girl, a gun and a broken lift.
05/24/03
Great writing, brilliant direction, awesome music... What could go wrong? Easy: smack a ridiculous, insulting to the audience's intelligence ending.
09/10/02
An intelligent thriller that served as an important precursor in the late 1950s to such New Wave classics as Breathless and The Four Hundred Blows.
02/20/02
A stylish noir-ish crime drama boasting, amongst other things, an improvised Miles Davis soundtrack.
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