Elevator to the Gallows [Ascenseur pour l'echafaud]

Louis Malle (director, screenwriter)
Jeanne Moreau (starring)
Noel Calef (novel)
Roger Nimier (screenwriter)
Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1958 French film noir, showing a gloved Julien Tavernier carefully staging his lover's husband's death as a suicide.

The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave, and skyrocketed the career of Moreau, whose disaffected, makeup-less performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's release.

12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 335. Grant France. Selby France.


[Book #171784]