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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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Director: Jacques Tati (1958)
Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati’s eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati directs and stars in the second entry of the Hulot series, a delightful satire of mechanized living.
With: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie.
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