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Quiet Days In Clichy | 
| Director: Jens Jorgen Thorsen
Actors: Louise White, Paul Valjean, Susanne Krage, Ulla Lemvigh-mueller, Wayne John Rodda
Studio: Blue Underground
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 26892
Format: Black White, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Danish (Dubbed)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 581034
UPC: 827058103497
EAN: 0827058103497
ASIN: B000096IA7
Theatrical Release Date: 1970
Release Date: February 3, 2004
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From Amazon.com
Suffused with the improvisational playfulness of the French New Wave and brimming with naked flesh and explicit scenes, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's freewheeling adaptation of Henry Miller's notorious novel offered a different kind of American in Paris and pushed the boundaries of sex on the screen. America pushed back: the film was seized on charges of obscenity in 1970 and condemned by the Catholic bishops review board. Though hardly tame by modern standards, it's less an underground classic than a curious timepiece. Paul Valjean is a colorless star, and behind the hedonism and erotic adventures is a chauvinist portrait of sexual relations (Philip Kaufman's IHenry and June/I offers a more interesting take on Miller). See IQuiet Days in Clichy/I for the marvelous black and white images of late-1960s Paris, an energetic supporting cast (many of them actual Parisian streetwalkers, according to legend), and Country Joe McDonald's ribald songs. I--Sean Axmaker/I
Additional Features
The DVD includes interviews with composer Country Joe McDonald and Henry Miller's publisher, Barney Rosset. It also contains DVD-ROM-accessible FBI files and court documents.
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 Tansgressive cinema from 1970 February 2, 2004
Transgressive cinema from 1970, variously banned and criticised for years after initial release. The acting, staging and photography (BW) show some age, resembling prehistoric reality TV- unsanitised, unwashed and at times just plain distasteful.brThe film is notable for its innovation, including the use of speech bubbles and a unique and often humourous score. The issue with showing generally unappealing and uninteresting people is that the film is similarly imbued with the same character. The scenes of 70's Paris are however great fun.brWatching this leaves a strange taste in the mouth, like eating cake and forgetting to remove the cardboard base, or finding a hair in your mother-in-law's moussaka.
 Wonderful! December 2, 2002
C. S. Junker (Burien, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quiet Days in Clichy was the first Henry Miller book I read, at the impressionable age of 17. While traveling through Europe, I bought the Grove Press movie tie-in edition, featuring numerous stills from this picture. I read the book several dozen times, and as a result the images from the movie formed part of my memory along with Miller's words.pNow, more than 31 years later, the film is available at last, and I finally got to see those pictures come to life. pFor me, watching this was a wonderful experience. It was one of those rare films that transported me completely to another time and place. For a brief 90+ minutes, I was my younger self again.pThe story hasn't changed, but I have. I no longer find Miller's caustic sexism charming; in fact it seems childish to me. The explicit sex in the movie (there are a few bits that could be considered hard-core porn) is no longer shocking, and the freewheeling lifestyle depicted is, I now understand, something that was, and is, almost wholly imaginary. pFor all the sexist attitudes of the two male leads, the female characters are brilliantly portrayed. Country Joe McDonald's brilliant music brings more surrealistic magic out of the picture, giving it not only a contemporary feel (the original story was set in the 1930s) but an atmosphere that helps it transcend the limitations of its low budget. pThis is a faithful adaptation of Miller's book, which is good news for Miller's fans. If graphic sex makes you at all uncomfortable, by all means avoid this film. But if Miller's erotic work appeals to you at all, you owe it to yourself to give this one a chance.
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