IMDb plot summary: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Directed by Louis Malle. Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, and Yori Bertin.
(Spoilers ahead.)
It's kind of interesting how this film sets up one character as our protagonist, only to abandon him in a trapped elevator for most of the movie and focus on what's happening while he's incapacitated. Like many noir-ish crime films, this one comes around full circle and ends in the criminals being punished for their crimes, and this is somewhat satisfying, but the in between is varying levels of satisfying. Mrs. Carala's wandering through the streets of Paris is much less interesting to me than the accidental Bonnie and Clyde couple (particularly the woman -- I was intrigued with how she responded to her boyfriend's increasingly criminal and antisocial behavior). I'm not sure it does much overall that any other crime movie doesn't do, but it's got enough bright spots that I'm glad I saw it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Elevator to the Gallows < Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Elevator to the Gallows > Sands of Iwo Jima
Elevator to the Gallows > The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Elevator to the Gallows > Whisper of the Heart
Elevator to the Gallows > The Avengers
Elevator to the Gallows < South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Elevator to the Gallows < Cool Hand Luke
Elevator to the Gallows > Gypsy (1962)
Elevator to the Gallows > The Double Life of Veronique
Elevator to the Gallows < A Time to Kill
Final spot: #1546 out of 2945.
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