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Elevator to the Gallows

Louis Malle made his entry into the cinema with a "style exercise" past the rank of classic, where the trumpet of Miles Davis announced a new generation directors.

ulien J Tavernier, a former para, completes the perfect crime by removing the husband of his mistress, arms merchant. But, forced to return to the scene, he is stuck in the elevator by a power failure. His accomplice waited in vain for coffee, then spends the night trying to find his trail ... Meanwhile, a young deliveryman him mowing his car to impress his girlfriend, then panics and kills two German tourists ...

To Kill Miles on trumpet

In 1957, Louis Malle was 25 years. He has already won the top award at Cannes for The Silent World, co-directed with Jacques Cousteau. This time, the "Price Delluc really went to a beginner who can go very far, "wrote one journalist. It recognizes that his first film director called it "exercise in style". On the basis of a "polar" classic is a tribute to American cinema, especially Hitchcock. In the elevator scene, attention to objects (the lighter, the cigarette pack, the knife ...) evokes Robert Bresson - including Louis Malle was an assistant on death row inmate escaped. At the same time, Elevator to the Gallows announces a break with the production of the time. Abstract construction of the narrative makes three themes superposed bias to never show the lovers together on the screen (except photo), using a black background to isolate the characters in the scene from my office: a style is emerging, elliptical, incisive , stripped, burning from the inside. Louis Malle also reveals his qualities as director of actors with Jeanne Moreau, moving, strolling in a city of glittering lights, and Maurice Ronet, sober and compelling. Along only of trumpet improvisation by Miles Davis tore the film from beginning to end.

Film
Louis Malle (France, 1957, 1h32mn, black and white)
Screenplay: Louis Malle and Roger Nimier
based on the novel by Noel Calef
The Elevator to the Gallows
Starring: Maurice Ronet (Julien Tavernier) ,
Jeanne Moreau (Florence Carala)
Poujouly Georges (Louis), Yori Bertin
(Veronica), Félix Marten (Christian
Subervie), John Wall (Carala), Lino Ventura
(Commissioner Cherrier), Elga Andersen
(Frieda), Jean-Claude Brialy (a client)
Photo: Henri Decae
Music: Miles Davis
PRICE LOUIS DELLUC, 1957