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Elevator to the Gallows. For his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together a mesmerizing performance by Jeanne Moreau, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and a now legendary jazz score by Miles Davis. Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau ...
Interview with Louis Malle (1976) Roger Ebert September 30, 1976. Tweet. Some people daydream and some people don't. So said Louis Malle on a sunny day last April, as he peeled an orange and looked out of his hotel window at Lake Michigan. "I think you're safer if you don't.
Louis Malle’s critically acclaimed _Murmur of the Heart_ gracefully combines elements of comedy, drama, and autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy’s sexual maturation. Both shocking and deeply poignant, this is one of the finest coming-of-age films ever made.
Louis Malle was a highly acclaimed French filmmaker known for his diverse body of work that spanned multiple genres and styles. Here are some of his most highly regarded films: “Au revoir les enfants” (1987) – This semi-autobiographical film follows the story of a young boy attending a Catholic boarding school during the German occupation ...
The French director Louis Malle (1932–1995) was an auteur theorist's bête noire. If his films had one thing in common, it was the director's resolve to make each film different from the last. He began as cinematographer for Jacques Cousteau and assistant to Robert Bresson, and throughout his career, alternated between narrative features and documentaries; sometimes he made films that were ...
Few directors have portrayed the agonies and epiphanies of growing up as poetically—and controversially—as Louis Malle. Laced with autobiographical details, Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au revoir les enfants tell stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more than just coming-of-age stories ...
Louis Malle. This most unpredictable of filmmakers enriched cinema over a nearly forty-year career that took him from the peripheries of the French New Wave to the vanguard of American moviemaking. 17 Results.
