Lift To The Scaffold
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Fri 22 August 2008 // 20:00
Lift to the Scaffold (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Louis Malle 1958 France 88 mins
This is a classic haunting film noir suspense thriller with a sad and
atmospheric Miles Davis score.
A businessman and ex paratrooper Julien Tavernier (Maurice Ronet) is in love with his boss's wife Florence Carala (Jeanne Moreau). Together they plan to murder the husband and make it look like a suicide. After the intricate planning the deed is done, and Travernier takes the elevator down to escape only to realise that he has left a rope dangling outside the window... as he attempts to retrieve the evidence and goes back up in the elevator, the building security guard shuts off the power, stopping the elevator between floors. As the panic sets in, Travernier is trapped...