Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)'s comments

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Dieguito

Very good movie, half crime half drama! Splendid plot, direction and acting!

12 years 7 months ago

daisyaday

The Miles Davis score is brilliant, the story is great, the acting is terrific.

12 years 4 months ago

gerundio

What a way to start a movie !

6 years 8 months ago

senorroboto

A really satisfying approach to storytelling, it feels like it's starting in the middle by Hollywood standards. Suspenseful yet unhurried, much like the jazz score that accompanies it.

9 years 5 months ago

ClassicLady

Love the camera work. The close-ups are outstanding.

10 years 6 months ago

lachyas

Great noir! Could have done without the narratively convenient spoiler

, as well as the cumbersome internal monologues, but the strong acting, clever and unconventional plot progression, and inventive camerawork make this quite the enthralling watch.

10 years 1 month ago

ebrehe

beautiful filming accompanied by miles davis trompet...

13 years 2 months ago

Masch Man

saw this last night, brilliant film and a brilliant score to go with it, one of the best ever in fact.

13 years 6 months ago

I admit I had trouble getting into Louis Malle's little Noir, Elevator to the Gallows, because it initially felt a little disjointed. We basically follow three connected strands: A man silently executes a plan to murder his boss/his mistress' husband, going through an elevator shaft; Jeanne Moreau, as the mistress, running around Paris despondently looking for him after she sees his car pass by (did he not go through with it?); and a young couple joyriding with the car and, as if possessed by the older couple's intent, killing a couple of tourists more or less by accident. It all turns into a massive fiasco for all characters involved as their twinned circumstances first confuse, then help the investigation into each murder. Miles Davis provides a cool, sad Noir score. I liked it, I just wish I were more of a fan, but I find the man's techie Mission: Impossible bits a rather dull cut-to, and Moreau's voice-over is out of psycho-drama or Goddard, and too melodramatic for the mostly naturalistic tone of the film.

4 years ago