Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)

Not so quiet, Joey and Carl's days in Clichy... The two men, living in a small apartment, are penniless writers, with not enough to eat, which does not prevent them from enjoying life. One ... See full summary »

Director:

Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Writers:

Henry Miller (novel), Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Stars:

Paul Valjean, Wayne Rodda, Ulla Koppel

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Not so quiet, Joey and Carl's days in Clichy... The two men, living in a small apartment, are penniless writers, with not enough to eat, which does not prevent them from enjoying life. One of their main interests is to get laid with women of various ages, physical appearances and nationalities. Among them, a neighbor in need, a fourteen-year-old half-witted girl, an American newspaper vendor who tends to smash up everything before making love, a Swedish woman who mourns her late husband..., all being merely sex toys they play with

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Plot Keywords:

sex in a bathtub | voyeurism | voyeur | sex | woman wearing only a man's shirt | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Denmark

Language:

English Danish

Release Date:

1 June 1970 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Not So Quiet Days

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dans-Svensk, SBA

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min (uncut)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the film came to the United States, it was seized by the authorities as pornography. The years have melted away its controversy and the uncut version was released to DVD in 2004.

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Quotes

Joey: There has only been one real problem, and that is food. All other ills have been imaginary. I use to tell Carl so when he complains about being a slave. He uses to say I'm an incurable optimist, but it is not optimism, it's the deep realisation that, even though the world is busy digging its grave there is still time to enjoy life, to be merry, carefree, to work or not to work. It has been a period when cunt was in the air.

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Connections

References The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)

User Reviews

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.