Elevator to the Gallows

One of the greatest filmmakers, and he had this 20-year gap.

Okay, uh, there's this black and white French film from 1958 called Elevator to the Gallows.

Um, I think the French translation is technically, like, Lift to the Scaffold or something like that, but in English it's called Elevator to the Gallows.

So it's a Louis Malle film.

Louis Malle, you know as the director of My Dinner with Andre.

Exactly.

[laughs] Um, so there you go.

Watchmen, [smacks lips] uh, Elevator to the Gallows, and Days of Heaven.

I really like his stuff.

What else of his films? I really like Elevator to the Gallows.

That's a very interesting film.

Which other French filmmakers? Yeah, there are just so many.

I also want to mention two other films I've seen recently.

One I saw yesterday, which I was going to go to the movies to see it, but it was so gross that I had to stay home and stream it instead, and that was Elevator to the Gallows, a movie that I know you love.

This is Louis Malle's first

feature film.

I'm bad with these things.

But I was

shocked by the fact that I watched Le Noté, Elevator to the Gallows, both starring Jean or Jean Moreau.

And basically, there are two movies in which she's just walking around aimlessly.

Fantastic.

I would also say Elevator to the Gallows is a noir that I really love as well in terms of some more like traditional classic noir.

I'm not even going to try to get into neo-noir right now, although, I mean, I love neo-noir.

And honestly, I would say, you know, for something from the same era, I would probably recommend Barton Fink.

What is that from the...

Is that the Elevator to the Gallows soundtrack?

Is that what essential means in English?

I believe so.

We heard that before.

Well,

I probably asked you back then if it was from the elevator to the gallows.

Oh, well, it's like that movie.