Wednesday 24 August 2011

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows (FR, 1958)

Owing more to European/French noir than the nouvelle vague, this depiction of an adulterous-crime-goes-horribly-wrong is known for being hastily scored by Miles Davis.

What little I've seen of Malle's previously (Lacombe Lucien, Milou en Mai) did not disappoint, and while this doesn't either, it is, I think, slightly overrated.

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