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Elevator to the Gallows

  • Dir: Louis Malle

  • France, 1958, 91 minsmins, DCP

  • Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly

A pair of adulterous lovers plot to murder the woman’s wealthy husband, but their plan goes awry when her paramour becomes trapped in an elevator after his botched escape from the crime scene – and inadvertently drawing a homicidal teenage couple into their web of deceit. Louis Malle’s debut feature – a tightly executed film noir with dazzling cinematography – catapulted Jeanne Moreau to stardom as the desperate wife wandering the nocturnal streets of Paris, searching for the lover that she believes has betrayed her. Miles Davis’ pioneering jazz score is rightly famous, capturing the film’s exhilarating, recklessness and mournful moods of this early entry to the French New Wave movement.

 

 

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Screening:

In-theatre Screening

  • Door Tickets Available at the Venue on Screening Date2017-11-24 (Fri)
    19:30

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