The film depicts the adventures of expatriate American writer Henry Miller and his friends, as they pursue art, money, food, and sex in Paris.The film depicts the adventures of expatriate American writer Henry Miller and his friends, as they pursue art, money, food, and sex in Paris.The film depicts the adventures of expatriate American writer Henry Miller and his friends, as they pursue art, money, food, and sex in Paris.
James T. Callahan
- Fillmore
- (as James Callahan)
Ellen Burstyn
- Mona Miller
- (uncredited)
David Baur
- Carl
- (as David Bauer)
Laurence Lignières
- Ginette
- (as Laurence Ligneres)
Raymond Gérôme
- Monsieur LeCenseur
- (as Raymond Gerome)
Ginette Leclerc
- Madame Hamilton
- (as Ginette LeClerc)
Philippe Gasté
- Train Passenger
- (as Philippe Gaste)
Gisèle Grimm
- Germaine
- (as Gisele Grimm)
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Robert Evans's biography, "The Kid Stays in the Picture", this film was made as the result of a bet between Evans and Henry Miller in which Miller won.
- Quotes
Henry Miller: [narrating] I am fucking you Tania, so that you'll stay fucked. And if you're afraid of being fucked publicly, I'll fuck you privately. I'll tear off a few hairs from your cunt and paste them on Boris's chin. I will bite into your clitoris and spit out two franc pieces.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Changes (1970)
- SoundtracksFrölicher Landmann (The Happy Farmer)
from "Album für die Jugend (The Album for the Young), Op.68"
Composed by Robert Schumann
(At the scene when Henry recollects Tania)
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Men behaving badly
As it's many years since I read the book I can't recall whether it had the same impression on me as the film, which was to profoundly depress me about the nature of man. The protagonist seems pretty much without redeeming features. He chases women in order to get them into bed, but seems to be basically hostile to them. He has friends in order to sponge off them. His sneering smile just makes me want to slap his face. I suspect however that this was not the intention of the film and we're really supposed to think he's quite a guy. In the context of the times the explicit language and sex scenes exploit a new permissiveness, but fundamentally it's an ugly and sexist depiction of men and women : the men trying to get sex with the minimum of commitment, and the women trying to pin the men down or get their money. It's really dated in this respect. On the plus side, I enjoyed the beautiful female bodies. The Parisian landscape shots also lift the ugliness from time to time.
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- Sep 28, 2015
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- Wendekreis des Krebses
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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