Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990)

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writers:

Claude Chabrol (adaptation) (dialogue)
Ugo Leonzio (adaptation) (dialogue)

Release Date:

9 May 1990 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. |

Plot Keywords:

Erotica | Shower | Female Frontal Nudity | 1930s | Place Name In Title

Cast

Andrew McCarthy	...	Henry Miller, AKA Joey
Nigel Havers	...	Alfred Perlès, AKA Karl
Barbara De Rossi	...	Nys
Stéphanie Cotta	...	Colette Ducarouge
Isolde Barth	...	Ania Regentag
Eva Grimaldi	...	Yvonne
Anna Galiena	...	Edith
Giuditta Del Vecchio
Stéphane Audran	...	Adrienne
Mario Adorf	...	Ernest Regentag
Elide Melli
Henri Attal
Jean-Marie Arnoux
Hélène Benayon
Jacques Brunet	...	Colette's father

Also Known As:

Giorni felici a Clichy (Italy)
Quiet Days in Clichy

Runtime:

Colombia:116 min | Argentina:120 min

Country:

France | Italy | Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Certification:

Australia:R | France:-12 | UK:18 | West Germany:16 | Argentina:18

Filming Locations:

Calvados, France

Company:

Italfrance Films

Movie Connections:

References Jules et Jim (1962)

Very nice portrait of the thirties...

Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...