Taken in 1957, this film is the first film directed by Louis Mahler when he was 24 years old. It incorporates elements of crime, suspense, and horror. The first scene at the beginning of the film caught my eye. A close-up of a woman's face appeared: sad, silently weeping, telling the heartfelt words.
Without making any preparations, it directly led to the incident.
The combination of two clues in the film resulted in two murders by accident. The low-level mistakes of the protagonist at the beginning led to the exposure of the originally perfect plan.
There is a scene in the film that impressed me very deeply: the heroine has not been able to wait for the return of her lover for a long time. She is disappointed and helpless, desperate, and wandering on the bustling street like a walking corpse. The background is accompanied by Miles Davies' sentimental jazz trumpet solo, which embodies the sentiment in the scene, and appropriately brings out the mood of the heroine at the time. Jeane Moreau's performance is in place. This scene is a classic. (French Pavilion at Expo I saw a few screens, a lot of French logo and slogan to be clipped into a film, among them the fragments, I'm impressed!)
The film is one of the highlights is to plan the murder of a couple As the protagonist, he has meticulously portrayed the heart of the criminal, using unexpected factors to cause things to develop in the opposite direction, emphasizing contingency. It also highlights the eternal theme that people who do bad things will be punished, and everything comes to light in the end.
The title of this film is so wonderful, it is the fault of the elevator!
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