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Elevators to the Gallows
Aug 29, 2008 – Aug 30, 2008
Daily (1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20 & 10:10pm)
Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
$11
In noir tradition, antiheroes' fail-safe schemes always seem to catch on that one inconvenient snag: fate. For its French Crime Wave series, Film Forum has programmed five weeks of these unforeseen underworld setbacks. The early Nouvelle Vague thriller Elevator to the Gallows is a faultless illustration of the genre, leaving its machinations to a machine — the lovers' future hangs on a malfunctioning elevator. Jolie laide Jeanne Moreau stands out as the tycoon's wife who enlists her ex-paratrooper lover to fake her husband's suicide. Underrated auteur Louis Malle maintains an up-and-down mood throughout, one fraught with desperation and a dash of beatnik cool courtesy of Miles Davis' improvised score.
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