Stille dage i Clichy (1970)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Writers:

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

Release Date:

1 June 1970 (Denmark)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Author | Softcore | Explicit Sex | France

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:

Edited into Red, White and Blue (1971)

Bad (mmm, awful?) but still better than the 1990 version

I'm reviewing this from the perspective of myself as a fan of Miller .. Though this is a poorly-done piece of amateur cinema, there is at least enough curiosity in seeing the presentation of the characters and other elements of the book, though you will likely be horribly disappointed with everything. "Quiet Days" is certainly one of Miller's crudest books, in terms of him coming off like a real jerk, albeit a smart and charming one (which the actor playing Miller totally lacks). In that sense, the film captures the baseness in the fact that it's as if the novel has been interpreted by tittering frat boys who pick out the most basic "shock" elements and run with them with anti-authoritarian glee. The previous review of this film mentions plot points which make no sense. This is because the director showed his obvious carelessness and sloppiness by not attaching logic to actions which are clear in the book. A curiosity of the late 60's (including footage of Paris in 69/70; also notable for the use of text within image which I actually quite liked), but a real disappointment for Miller fans, and a pretty bad movie overall.