Stille dage i Clichy (1970)

Director:

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Writers:

Henry Miller (novel) and
Jens Jørgen Thorsen (writer)

Release Date:

1 June 1970 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Prostitute | Europe | Foreign Language Adaptation | Nudity | Extramarital Affair

Cast

Paul Valjean	...	Joey
Wayne Rodda	...	Carl
Ulla Koppel	...	Nys (as Ulla Lemvigh-Müller)
Avi Sagild	...	Mara
Susanne Krage	...	Christine
Louise White	...	Surrealist
Petronella	...	Adrienne
Elsebeth Reingaard	...	Colette
Lisbet Lundquist	...	Jeanne
Olaf Ussing	...	Father
Noemi Roos	...	Mother
Anne Kehler	...	Corinne
Herman Wolsgaard-Iversen
Britten Jensen
Elsa Jackson

Also Known As:

Not So Quiet Days (USA) (reissue title)
Quiet Days in Clichy (USA)

Runtime:

France:80 min | USA:100 min | USA:91 min (uncut version)

Country:

Denmark

Language:

English | Danish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | Germany:16 (re-rating) (2006) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Finland:(Banned) (1971) (cut) | Finland:(Banned) (1970) (uncut) | Finland:K-18 (1971) (heavily cut) | Netherlands:16 | France:-18 | Hungary:18 | UK:18 | Norway:(Banned) (original rating)

Company:

Dans-Svensk

Trivia:

This was filmed simultaneously with another Henry Miller adaptation, Tropic of Cancer (1970). Both were filmed (at least partly) in Paris and Miller himself would drop by the sets of both films. At times, filming locations were only a quick walk away.

Quotes:

Mara: I hate my countrymen. They are hard, mercenary, without pity for... my kind.

Movie Connections:

Alternate language version of Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990)

A seriously awful film

If you were there at the time the film makes sense. All of the taboos were there to be broken and this one tried to break them all at once just to prove it could get away with it. So there's naked women everywhere (in poses 'pushing out the envelope' of the day), bad language and lavatorial humour in abundance. My guess is that the producers were so fixated on pushing back the boundaries of the then conventional taste, that even the most the most rudimentary craftsmanship was contemptuously discarded.

So it's a pity that the acting is terrible, wit is noticeable by its absence and the nudes aren't really all that exciting. Some gross outs can be amusing. These ones were not.

With very little effort this could have been so much more fun and put one over on the wicked establishment at the same time.

Watch 'I Am Curious' instead. It's (they're) no great shakes but much better than this.