Elevator to the Gallows Comments

  • Alvina 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    A wise man has a thousand worries, and he must make a mistake. Murder or theft, no matter how well-planned the plan is, in the end, success is timing, and defeat is timing. The montage of this film is very clever, the eyebrows are burning on this side, and the other side is leisurely strolling in the courtyard. A lot of psychological monologues, eloquently, really make people's heart beat faster. The victims are many pitiful, but it is also very embarrassing. Murder and theft are not very...

  • Lamar 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Without any foreshadowing, the incident was directly brought out, and without any foreshadowing, everything was revealed. I didn’t understand how the photos of the male and female protagonists fell into the hands of the police? PS: If you want to leave so many group photos, you have to bring a photographer with you when you have a secret...

  • Sandy 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    1. Nothing happens without a book. There will always be a series of coincidences that go against your perfect plan. 2. I really like the sad soundtrack and the dark lighting schedule. 3. Women are always stronger in love, and spare no effort to pay for the man they...

  • Syble 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    you see madam, there are always several photos in a...

  • Grady 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    The film uses ingenious plot logic to push an otherwise perfect criminal plan into an absurd situation. The seemingly low-level but reasonable mistakes will make the audience fall into helpless anxiety, while the inner monologue makes the film have a poetic temperament. The complex nature of the film makes it difficult to categorize it, yet it seems that the serene appearance has the ability to be...

  • Kennedi 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    A fusion of French New Wave and "Post-Caligari". Snowballing from a single point to a narrative with multiple threads. The blues soundtrack expresses the inner confusion of the characters. This existential style with dark humor directly influenced American directors such as the Coen brothers and Martin Scorsese in the future. Although there is suspicion of hasty anticlimactic, but since it is the director's first feature film, it is also...

  • Julianne 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Her smile only appears in the photo and is fleeting. Moreau is so charming, her one-man show is always bright, she walks aimlessly on the road, and the rain doesn't stop...

  • Name 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The so-called perfect murders are ultimately defeated by small mistakes. On the same night, the male protagonist was trying to get out of the predicament, and the female protagonist was walking on the street in a blur, including the handling of the young couple, very French. The black and white picture is very...

  • Dorcas 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    The take on film noir is obvious. There is a big and small problem that is limited by the age, that is, the low-light scenes in the elevator are obviously wrong. First, the traces of the lighting are particularly obvious, and the second is the brightness problem. The brightness of many pictures is enough for the audience to watch. The scene is clear, but the situation of the picture is that the male protagonist must rely on the light of a lighter to see clearly, which makes the whole scene seem...

  • Sonny 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    75/365days. The two previously publicized murders were both characterized in the development of the film. Although it is the debut work, the forgetting of the key clues (still hooked on the rope on the balcony) is simply too low-level mistake. It was possible to go on a more cruel or absurd road by coincidence, but the solution of the case was handed over to the director with an omniscient perspective. Only Jeanne Moreau, who is left alone wandering the streets of Paris at night, deserves...

Extended Reading
  • Dee 2022-01-12 08:01:24

    Louis Mahler: 25-year-old ladder

    "The Elevator to the Gallows" was filmed in 1957. It is the first feature film independently directed by French director Louis Mahler. Louis Mahler is regarded as one of the masters of the French New Wave, and the film is also considered by posterity to be a subsequent rise. One of the first films...

  • Antonette 2022-01-12 08:01:24

    Black classic

    This is of course a black classic of Louis Mahler. I have already engraved the CDR in the VCD era. I have also heard the soundtrack of the movie by miles davis, but I have forgotten to look it out? The version I’m watching tonight is the first episode of the Louis Mahler suit launched in the Nikkei...

Elevator to the Gallows quotes

  • Horst Bencker: Ah! My favorite champagne. We didn't have this brand during the occupation.

    Véronique: He doesn't like champagne.

    Horst Bencker: How sad. Had I known you can't stand champagne...

    Louis: It does nothing for me. My generation has other things on its mind. Four years of occupation, Indochina, Algeria.

    Horst Bencker: Bravo! Bravo! To Europe!

    Véronique: To Europe!

    Frieda Bencker: To Europe!

  • Horst Bencker: We Germans don't like war.

    Louis: Yeah, right!

    Horst Bencker: You're just like the older generation of Frenchmen. We're just traveling businessmen. And a uniform for traveling tends to stand out.