Wednesday, April 15, 2009

scaffolding


At the BFI this month, they've got a season of films from the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 60s. On Friday I went to see Louis Malle's "Lift to the Scaffold" which was released in 1958. It's got a great (improvised) Miles Davis soundtrack...



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2 comments:

Cocktails said...

This is a fabulous film isn't it? I saw it when it was last on at the BFI (and I think I posted about it...) but I had no idea until I walked in that it had the Miles Davis soundtrack.

A few people have said that this is one of Malle's dodgier films, but I thought it was great, strangely compelling...

Hoops Hooley said...

Yeah I enjoyed it. Paris in the fifties, shot in black and white, to the accompaniment of a Miles Davis soundtrack: ticks a few boxes for me...

Can't say I'm very familiar with Malle's other films but it was actually quite a good story, which is not often the case with New Wave stuff, I seem to think. Quite light-hearted too, although the bloke sitting next to me guffawed throughout which I thought was a bit of an over-reaction and became very tedious quite quickly...