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Lift to the Scaffold

Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)

1958

Louis Malle

Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin ...

7.6

6,681

Film noir. Thriller. Drama Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper want to murder her husband by faking a suicide. But after Julien has killed him and he puts his things in his car, he finds he has forgotten the rope outside the window and he returns to the building to remove it.

	Author	Review
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is not free of plot-holes...but what a supremely stylish and watchable picture it is"	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"Moreau's nocturnal wanderings are made unbearably poignant by an exquisite Miles Davis jazz score that became famous in its own right."	POS
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"The film's look makes a divine accessory for its music, which Miles Davis composed. There's not even 20 minutes of it in the film, yet it still defines the atmosphere, transforming a crime yarn into a bebop noir"	POS

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