Stille dage i Clichy/Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
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Stille dage i Clichy/Quiet Days in Clichy (1970) - Jens Jorgen Thorsten
Henry Miller's memoir of friends, women, and cheap wine is a relaxed, very sexy outrage that manages to be both humorous and pornographic. Genitals and "penetration" are shown and a particularly anti-bourgeois scene has the starving Miller flavor a cookie from a garbagecan with odor derived from his anus. SC -- Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066407/ [Oct 2004]
Stille dage i Clichy/Quiet Days in Clichy (1970) - Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Stille dage i Clichy/Quiet Days in Clichy (1970) - Jens Jørgen Thorsen [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
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Suffused with the improvisational playfulness of the French New Wave and brimming with naked flesh and explicit scenes, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's freewheeling adaptation of Henry Miller's notorious novel offered a different kind of American in Paris and pushed the boundaries of sex on the screen. America pushed back: the film was seized on charges of obscenity in 1970 and condemned by the Catholic bishops review board. Though hardly tame by modern standards, it's less an underground classic than a curious timepiece. Paul Valjean is a colorless star, and behind the hedonism and erotic adventures is a chauvinist portrait of sexual relations (Philip Kaufman's Henry and June offers a more interesting take on Miller). See Quiet Days in Clichy for the marvelous black and white images of late-1960s Paris, an energetic supporting cast (many of them actual Parisian streetwalkers, according to legend), and Country Joe McDonald's ribald songs. --Sean Axmaker
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