Louis Malle Features Collection (Louis Malle) (DVD / Box Set)

Collection of ten films directed by French film-maker Louis Malle. In the black comedy 'Lift to the Scaffold' 1958 a crime of passion goes horribly wrong when the killer gets trapped in a lift. As Julien Maurice Ronet's lover, Florence Carala Jeanne Moreau - who also happens to be the victim's wife - is out searching for him in Paris, a young hood and his girl steal the killer's car, complicating matters further. In 'The Lovers' 1958 Moreau stars as a woman desperate to free herself from a dull and unhappy marriage. So she heads for the excitement of Paris with her friends where one day a chance encounter gives her the excitement she has been craving. 'Zazie dans le Mtro' 1960 follows the story of Zazie Catherine Demongeot, a ten-year-old kid who desperately wants to ride on the Paris Mtro during her holidays. But when she finds out there is a 24 hour strike she runs riot through the city. In 'Le Feu Follet' 1963 a recovering alcoholic Ronet decides to commit suicide. He spends 24 hours wandering through Paris and visiting old friends one last time, hoping to find some meaning to life and a reason to go on living. In 'Murmur of the Heart' 1971 Laurent Chevalier Benot Ferreux is a precocious 15-year-old living in the 1950s, who growing up in a boisterous loving family, travels with his mother Lea Massari to a fashionable spa town to recuperate from a heart murmur. But once there, motherly love transforms into sexual longing. In 'Lacome, Lucien' 1974 young French peasant Lucien
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