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Director: Louis Malle (1987)
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale [...]

Director: Louis Malle (1971)
Louis Malle spawned controversy with this semi-autobiographical film of 1971 set in Dijon. It concerns the sexual initiation of a precocious, academic, wealthy French adolescent (Benoit Ferreux), a process that’s assisted at one crucial point by his sensuous Italian mother (Lea Massari), while undergoing treatment for a heart murmur. Its spirit is [...]

Director: Louis Malle (1967)
In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal, a wellborn orphan, is cheated out of his inheritance by an unscrupulous uncle and then forced to stand by helplessly while his cousin Charlotte, with whom he is in love, is forced by her uncle to become engaged to another man. He reduces Charlotte’s fiancé to the [...]

Director: Louis Malle (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows is many things: A tight, delicious crime thriller; the debut of director Louis Malle (Zazie dans le metro, Atlantic City, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, and many more works of subtle genius); a movie with perhaps the greatest jazz soundtrack of all time, created improvisationally by trumpeter Miles Davis; [...]

Director: Louis Malle (1958)
Considered controversial when first released, Louis Malle’s erotic drama stars Jeanne Moreau as a bored wife and mother who begins an impassioned affair with a young archeologist and decides to abandon her family. Tenderly erotic and passionate, the film is noted for superb cinematography, a classical music score, and a semi-nude scene.
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