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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 describe. I read the book several dozen times, and as a result the images from the movie formed allotment of my memory along with Miller’s words.
Now, more than 31 years later, the film is available at last, and I finally got to scrutinize those pictures arrive to life.
For me, watching this was a fantastic experience. It was one of those rare films that transported me completely to another time and state. For a brief 90+ minutes, I was my younger self again.
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The tale hasn’t changed, but I have. I no longer win 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 plain, and the freewheeling lifestyle depicted is, I now understand, something that was, and is, almost wholly imaginary.
For all the sexist attitudes of the two male leads, the female characters are brilliantly portrayed. Country Joe McDonald’s vivid music brings more surrealistic magic out of the portray, giving it not only a contemporary feel (the new legend was residence in the 1930s) but an atmosphere that helps it transcend the limitations of its shameful budget.
This is a faithful adaptation of Miller’s book, which is favorable news for Miller’s fans. If graphic sex makes you at all unfortunate, 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.
Free spirits, nihilists, professional nonconformists, and unabashed civilization despisers count author Henry Miller (1891-1980) as one of their patron saints. It’s not hard to perceive why. Miller’s numerous books espouse a carefree lifestyle that rejects hierarchy, embraces living in the moment, and condones a reckless lifestyle marked by free expression, drink, and experimentation of all sorts. I suspect the phrase “I’ll try anything once” describes Miller’s philosophy to a T. In now lionized books like “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn,” Miller outlined his believe outlaw lifestyle during his tenure as an American expatriate in Paris. “Detached Days of Clichy,” another book about his days in France, documents his friendship with Alfred Perles and their subsequent wild and wacky adventures. While I haven’t read a word of any of Miller’s books, I did recently sit down to a 1970 film version of “Clichy” directed by Jen Jorgen Thorsen. It’s no mistake this film arrived in theaters–at least the ones heroic enough to hide it–during the heights of the counterculture. The ideas expressed in the movie certainly fit the worldview of many American and European youths in that era. A word of warning at the outset: if you loathe attractive depictions of “human interaction,” avoid this film at all costs.
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Meet Joey (Paul Valjean) and Carl (Wayne Rodda), two devil may care miscreants roaming around the highways and byways of France picking up women, drinking, and generally having a fun time. In more ways than one, it’s surprising Joey is so successful with the ladies: he’s bald, thin, and wears glasses. Nonetheless, he and Carl bring befriend to their filthy apartment a string of young French women looking for a night of carousing. Since both men don’t have stable employment, the daily struggle for existence moves to the forefront whenever the ladies move. For example, finding enough money for food is always a dilemma. Joey spends the better section of an evening roaming the streets of Paris looking for handouts. When that fails, he launches into a thorough scouring of the apartment’s kitchen before finding something in the trash on which he may dine. Fun, eh? Ask to watch many seemingly mundane scenes like this one stretched out for minutes at a time. I say “seemingly” because there is a philosophy gradual the characters’ day to day activities. Whether it is a philosophy either realistic or worth engrossing in is an curious quiz, but it strikes at the heart of Miller’s worldview.
Most of “Unexcited Days of Clichy” deals with the women. We inspect Carl bring a young, mentally challenged girl abet to the apartment amidst great consternation from Joey. A minor consuming in the sorts of activities these two prefer portion in every day could cause problems with the authorities. One day the two men follow this girl around the city watching what she does from afar. Why? Because they have nothing better to do, of course! Since many of the women Carl and Joey bring abet to the apartment are harridans, most of these encounters deteriorate into arguments about fiscal matters. Even a fun evening that involves a bathtub, wine, and a lot of laughter eventually turns shocking when discussions of payment enter the represent. The relationships between these two guys and the women they sight to employ time with often bear an homely, misogynistic tone. Whether that tone finds expression in Miller’s books or not I don’t know, but that sort of behavior shouldn’t glide at all in the nice, bright new age. Feminists will sputter in rage over the activities of these two cads.
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Good effort, it’s difficult to write a summary of this film! Primarily because nothing worthy happens beyond two guys out and about looking for a superior time. Even the crawl they occupy to Luxembourg doesn’t demonstrate us all that remarkable. But as I wrote earlier, that’s the point. It’s the opinion of living from moment to moment, never planning anything and never reducing oneself to another person’s whims that fuels the activities in this movie. When viewing the narrate through this lens, “Calm Days in Clichy” succeeds wildly. Another factor that makes this film worth viewing is Thorsen’s direction and editing techniques. He occasionally uses cartoon dialogue bubbles to boom the characters’ inner thoughts, and his reliance on rapid-fire cuts give the film an amazingly new feel. This is the sort of MTV style editing techniques adopted by nearly every television prove and blockbuster type film since 1985, but Thorsen did it first. The gloomy and white film stock doesn’t prohibit us in any design from enjoying the city and country scenery that forms the backdrop for grand of the movie’s action. An unforgettable gain from none other than Country Joe MacDonald will preserve you humming–I’m humming the title track now, in fact–for ages after the film ends.
I’m not surprised at all to learn Blue Underground transferred this film to DVD. As usual, they did an grand job. The extras alone will sustain you busy: a trailer, two easter eggs, stills, cast and crew biographies, an eleven slight interview with Country Joe MacDonald, and an extensive interview with Grove Press’s Barney Rosset, Miller’s American publisher who led the fight to assume the numerous bans on the writer’s books, provide more than enough background on the film. While I judge many of the situations in the film are humorous, if not downright search for rollingly ridiculous, I have to give Thorsen’s report and the DVD high marks.
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