Round 9: Tossup 2

Early in this film, the offscreen firing of a gun is implied by a cut to a woman loudly sharpening her pencil. At the end of this film, the heroine says “they can’t keep us apart” after a policeman played by Lino Ventura takes her to a darkroom where a photograph fades away. This film’s B-plot concerns two young lovers who have an awkward dinner with a German couple at a motel after racing them with a stolen car. The song “Générique” was recorded for this film, which was the first feature by a 25-year-old who had won the Palme d’Or for co-directing The Silent World with Jacques (*) Cousteau. The camera was mounted in a baby carriage for a montage in this film in which Kenny Clarke’s drums play while its star wanders the Champs-Élysées. An electrical shutoff thwarts a murder getaway in this film, whose modal jazz score was improvised during a (10[1])single screening in Paris. For 10 points, Miles Davis scored what 1958 (-5[1])Louis Malle (“mal”) noir starring Jeanne Moreau ■END■ (10[1])

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