Every day, Allociné recommends a film to (re) see on TV. Tonight: a black film tinged with an author vision with Jeanne Moreau and Lino Ventura!
A lover, an adulterous woman, a large murdered boss, a young couple with few scruples, these are the ingredients of elevator for the scaffold, the first feature film directed by Louis Malle, who will then make goodbye the children, Zazie in the metro or Lacombe Lucien.
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Julien Tavernier climbed a floor to reach the office of his boss Simon Carala, and murdered her coldly. Camouflaging the crime in a suicide, he discreetly disappears by erasing all traces of his passage … except the climbing rope, which he forgot along the facade! Tavernier returns inside, but finds himself blocked in the elevator cabin. In the precipitation, he left his keys on the contact of his car, and a young couple took the opportunity to pay a small getaway. Florence, the wife of Carala and a lover of Julien, who was to find him after the assassination, goes in search of her.
Why look at it?
You will understand, elevator for the scaffold is not a conventional film because it follows four stories in parallel which will sometimes meet: on the one hand Julien (Maurice Ronet) stuck in his elevator, Florence (Jeanne Moreau) who seeks him in Paris, the couple (Georges Poujouly and Yori Bertin) who will live fairly intense events and the police investigation on the murder of Carala (Lino Ventura and Charles Denner).
Director Louis Malle has the originality of trying a black film in the purest tradition of the genre, while upsetting these codes by the marks of the new wave, then stammering: jazz music (signed Miles Davis), Cinema Truth (filming in the streets of True Paris), very literary dialogues in the mouths of the main characters … Everything is gathered to do a unique work, and it will attract a little less than 2 million people in theaters when it came out.
Tonight on France 5 to 9 p.m.
The trailer for “elevator for the scaffold”:
