What Makes this Film Great | Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

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Kicking off a series of vids about French films, we start of with Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, feating a standout performance from Jeanne Moreau and a killer Miles Davis soundtrack.
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More on the film:
A positive retro-review from Ebert (2005): www.rogerebert.com/reviews/el...
Even-handed look by Terrence Rafferty on the Criterion release, includes a bit on Malle's later career (2006): www.criterion.com/current/pos...
NYTimes obituary of Malle by Caryn James, includes discussion of some of his key films (1995): www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/mo...
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Title music: "Adventure" www.bensound.com
Patreon music: Urban Hip-Hop, MaxKoMusic: www.chosic.com/download-audio...

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@mgellerster 4 дня назад

This film made me think of Hitchcock and now I found this quote so I guess i'm not crazy. "I was split between my tremendous admiration for Robert Bresson and the temptation to make a Hitchcock-like film." - Louis Malle

@norawalker9180 4 месяца назад

Excellent Review. Thank you.

@thomasschlieben5945 4 дня назад

So I was thinking about the grappling hook conundrum. The rope used looks quite thin and therefore light even if it is strong enough to hold a grown man's weight. It is possible that the weight of the hook itself caused it to droop further and further down until the entire rope had run through the barb end and undone the loop over the rail...and dropped to the ground.

@watchmakersp9935 3 месяца назад

Excellent video and review.

@MatteBlack2024 4 месяца назад

Really thoughtful review. Having seen this film about 25 years ago, I enjoyed the refreshment. I especially enjoyed the political critique. What a sexy period in the arts. Miles Davis is credited with creating modal jazz in the late 50s and I believe this score is in that vein. Thank you.

@panderjitsinghvv8199 3 месяца назад

To me 70s USA crime films look and feel like French crime films of this era. The social context is explicitly different and the grittiness is less visceral and more methodic but the soul is similar.

@xhxhamza4815 8 месяцев назад

Great review thank you

@caldoreo Год назад

Great review

@rosezingleman5007 2 года назад

This has been on my list for ages. I really like Melville and Malle was my French Cinema gateway drug back in the day. (If we want perfect French we can ask Stewart Fernie, lol.) Great analysis Aaron.

@AaronHunter 2 года назад

Thanks so much - Melville's coming soon!

@MrMalcovic Год назад

Sometimes known as "Elevator/Lift to the Scaffold" (the other way round), as scaffold is another word for gallows...

@strictlysega 2 года назад

Can I request one Aaron ? How's the guitar coming along btw?

@AaronHunter 2 года назад

Sure, throw a request (might take me ages to get to it!) Guitar's okay, thanks! Need to find more time to practice, but am hoping to do a short (and probably embarassing :-) ) one-year anniversary vid!