Jeanne Moreau was also improvising (with the exception of two moments, when she thinks she sees Julién and when she approaches the hotel guard) - she was told by Louis Malle to just walk and look disillusioned, doing whatever she felt suitable for the situation and the mood. Also, most of the filming in this scene was done spontaneously, the people in the streets were real passers-by, no actors. Now, how's that for coolness!
Incredible? Hardly. Any decent musician ought to be able to noodle tastefully, endlessly... While scoring a film, busking on da corner or sitting in their kitchen(basement for you drummers!) ;)
Someone walking the streets to a jazz score? No violence? No shape-shifting aliens? No utterly nondescript “actors”? It would bore people rigid these days. Thankfully, we were born in an earlier age when we could appreciate the beauty of this evocative scene. Let us also be thankful to film, which enables our forgetful minds to be reminded of the culture which existed, delighted, and educated us.
The cinematography is captivating and, of course, the musical score is enchanting. The scene had me enthralled up to the moment it began to rain. I should have liked to see the lighting on Jeanne Moreau's face brighten and dim as she passed under the overhead lights. While I understand that her character is lost in thought; autonomic muscular reaction to cold rainfall stinging her face and flooding her eyes would compel her to respond in some fashion. Regardless, the film is magnificent.
Both this cinema clip and the music are at the highest level. They are both of their time, therefore not timeless, but brilliant for any and every generation to experience. Respect!
Don't know why this showed up in my recommendations and I don't know what's all about, but it gave me goosebumps and got me tear eyed. No doubt the music was a bit part of it, but also the cinematography, the ability to capture moods, feelings, situations without saying a word...
Stunning. Jeanne Moreau is one the most alluring women of the silver screen. Miles Davis" music is absolutely haunting. RIP Jeanne, Miles and Louis, the genius director Louis Malle, of course! Stunning and haunting.
¡Pero qué maravillosa escena, Moreau solitaria buscando por París y Miles convirtiendo en música sus sentimientos! Primera vez que la veo y me ha atrapado. ¡Qué belleza!
I love this movie and this music! Miles Davis you have never been so good! Well yeah you have been, but I so love your music in this film. You left 29 years ago today but have never been forgotten and in these 29 years you have been rediscover by music lovers looking for great music that move them. And You Do!!!
R.I.P. Jeanne Moreau, one of my favorite actress that inspired me with her natural talents. For me her acting was so "organic" and effortless, her unique beauty, voice and haunting gaze stood out. You will be missed.
Miles is the COOLEST!!!!!! He improvised the whole score, including the piano part (which plays a standard minor-key turn-around). True, the changes he is playing over repeat the same 3 chords over a standard bar structure, but the thing is HE IMPROVISED THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!! Can you imagine the power of his embouchure to get that piano sound!!!!!!!!!!
With all the bad that came out of the Covid thing, and my acquisition of streaming services, I got a 4K TV and "discovered" French films and actresses. Not that I had never seen any, but I developed a strong attachment to many French actresses. In the times past it was mainly Isabelle Adjani. Then more recently It started with Christa Theret, then Marion Cotillard, then Sophie Marceau, then a whole lot of others. Now I am trying to get to old French movies with these great classics by the likes of Anna Karina (I know technically Danish but became French), Jeanne Moreau, and others. If I wasn't so old I would try to learn the French language. So many classic French movies made in France and never set up with English subtitles.
RIEN n'est plus cool comme ça. Elle est si jeune mais classique et cool. Les jeunes de ma génération sont banals et conscients d'eux-mêmes. Et la musique de Miles Davis tres cool.
Ben non. Vous aimez le jazz parce que c'est en vous , pas àcause d'un film. Le film n'a été qu'une occasion qui s,est présentée qui vous a révélé à vous-même votre goût pour le jazz.
This is the sign of an exceptional actress and personality - just a woman, walking down a street in black-and-white with underlining jazz music, and you can't take your eyes off of her!!!
Jeanne Moreau in questa clip da la misura della grandezza di una attrice straordinaria qual' è stata. Senza quasi proferire parola (se non quella del nome dell' amato Julien) vagando solitaria per Parigi sotto la pioggia, pensando, illuminarsi il viso vedendolo arrivare, ma non da solo, per riprendere come una automa il suo girovagare. Il tutto accompagnato dalla tromba di Miles Davis e la straordinaria regia di Luis Malle. Amo il cinema contemporaneo ma alcuni film o scene come questa sono di una intensità e bellezza tali da non poterci...sorvolare e passare ad altro. Nedo Marco (Milano).
DRAGA NE PLAČI , NE TUGUJ MOGU LI TI POMOĆI . JA SAM TU . JA SAM TU TVOJ NAJBOLJI PRIJATELJ . TI SI MOJA LJUBAV I U DOBRU I U ZLU JA BIĆU TU .NE ZABORAVI ME ! TVOJ GOCI !
The soundtrack for Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud was available as one side of a very cheap LP (Art Blakey being on the other side). It was my first Miles Davis album, and many years before I ever saw Jeanne Moreau on the screen.
The 'magic meeting' of film director Louis Malle, with an actress and singer Jeanne Moreau and jazz genius Miles Davis. Triple talent. Spectacular. Magnificent. Amazing.
RIP Jeanne Moreau une actrice fabuleux. Musique de Miles Davis merveilleux... Louis Malle etait avec Miles dans une 'dark' appartement avec le film et Miles improvised !
Да! Я смотрел этот Замечательный Фильм!!! "Лифт на Эшафот"!!! Красивая Актриса!!! Лихо Закрученный Сюжет в Фильме, Впечатлил Меня!!! Спасибо!!! Jeanne Moreau & Maurice Ronet in "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud"!!!!! VERY BEST CINEMA!!! BLACK & WHITE MASTERPIECE!!! BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS!!! THANKS!!!
I can't be satiated with this picture! Sad Jeanne Moreau who is looking for her darling on the streets of Paris and on the background no less sad trumpet of Myles Davies! And a constellation of such actors as Maurice Ronet and Lino Ventura do The Lift on a Scaffold especially attractive!
The mood and look of this scene are recreated in the 1960 British film noir ‘Hell is a City’ with Stanley Baker and Billy Whitelaw wandering the streets of nighttime Manchester.
