May, 15 2024 | 7:00 pm

305 South Campbell Avenue Springfield, Missouri 65806
https://www.moxiecinema.com/films/the-essentials-elevator-to-the-gallows-1958

This monthly series at the Moxie Cinema showcases essential films everyone should see on the big screen.
The Essentials series is Free for Members.

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 and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder her husband (his boss) goes awry, setting off a chain of events that seals their fate. A career touchstone for its director and female star, Elevator to the Gallows was an astonishing beginning to Malle’s eclectic body of work, and it established Moreau as one of the most captivating actors ever to grace the screen. [Criterion]

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Director: Louis Malle
Language: French
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Thriller