Días tranquilos en Clichy
Stille dage i Clichy
Jens Jørgen Thorsen (Dinamarca, 1970) [B/N, 91 min]
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Stille dage i Clichy
Jens Jørgen Thorsen (Dinamarca, 1970) [B/N, 91 min]
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Sinopsis:
- [fuente] Dos colegas comparten apartamento en París. Uno quiere llegar a ser un escritor famoso; el otro se limita a pasarlo lo mejor posible. Ambos son expertos en la seducción de jóvenes hippies.
Hatcock, en The Arthouse Sex, escribió:Esta película, aunque contiene algunas fugaces secuencias de sexo explícito, no se puede considerar como pornográfica. Al contrario, se trata de la mejor adaptación de una novela del escritor norteamericano Henry Miller, cuya obra, como sabrán quienes la hayan degustado (a una o dos manos) tiene como elementos centrales el sexo y la vida bohemia, que utiliza como ariete para denunciar la hipocresía de la sociedad contemporánea y sus contradicciones.
En la obra de Miller el sexo se muestra -exhibe- de una forma desinhibida, lúdica -e incluso épica-, y la película refleja como ninguna el espíritu gamberro, transgresor y sexualmente voraz del autor.
AMG SYNOPSIS: A footloose American author drinks in the joys of the Bohemian life in this screen adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Henry Miller. Joey (Paul Valjean) is an aspiring writer from the United States who is living in Clichy, a small town near Paris, France, with his friend Carl (Wayne Rodda), a schoolteacher. Joey and Carl share a passionate enthusiasm for women, and in Chichy, a place where he can sense lust in the breeze, Joey can revel in his obsessions with both sex and the written word, with his only obstacle being scaring up the money for a square meal. During his days in Clichy, Joey becomes involved with easygoing Bohemian Nys (Ulla Lemvigh-Müller) and melancholy streetwalker Mara (Avi Sagild), while Carl becomes obsessed with Christine (Susanne Krage), an eccentric teenage runaway who seems to live in a world of her own. Stille Dage i Clichy was shot on-location in Clichy, in many of the locations Miller described in his book; oddly enough, another Miller adaptation, Tropic of Cancer, was being shot by different filmmakers in Paris at the same time. Like many of Miller's best-known books, Stille Dage i Clichy ran afoul of censors in the United States, and prints were seized by federal officials when the film was first imported to America, though obscenity charges were eventually overturned in federal courts. Country Joe McDonald, of the pioneering psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, wrote and performed several songs for the film's soundtrack. -- Mark Deming
AMG REVIEW: Jens Jørgen Thorsen's film adaptation of Henry Miller's biographical novel Quiet Days In Clichy is at once a tribute to Miller's trademark blend of sex and philosophy, and a product of its time, the late '60s and early '70s, when flaunting convention and running against the grain of the Hollywood approach was the obligation of every good hippie with a movie camera. Stille Dage i Clichy seems to exist in a sort of limbo, not really set in the 1930s, but not quite 1969 either, and it captures the spirit of Miller's work much better than the written word -- which is probably just as well, since Quiet Days In Clichy doesn't have much of a narrative, and neither does Thorsen's film. The two leading actors, Paul Valjean as Joey (obviously meant to be Miller) and Wayne Rodda as Carl, are easily the weakest parts of the picture, with neither delivering an especially compelling or convincing characterization, and the pacing and editing lacks a certain grace, which becomes all the more telling in the film's last act. But the sex scenes (some of which stop just short of hardcore) have a fleshy and unpretentious enthusiasm that Miller would doubtless have appreciated, most of the women (even those in unflattering roles) give robust performances, and several scenes in which the action is accompanied by long readings of Miller's prose come close to capturing the magic he could work with the English language. Thorsen's rough-and-tumble cinematic approach often dates this film and occasionally works against the material, but at its best, Stille Dage i Clichy is a very genuine love letter to the work of Henry Miller, and its enthusiasm is winning even when it fails as cinema. -- Mark Deming
- Remake:
- Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990) Claude Chabrol, con Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara De Rossi.
Ficha técnica
- Otros títulos internacionales: Quiet Days In Clichy / Not So Quiet Days / Jours tranquilles à Clichy / Giorni di Clichy.
Argumento: Henry Miller (novela autobiográfica, Quiet Days in Clichy, 1956).
Guión: Jens Jørgen Thorsen.
Fotografía: Jesper Høm (B&W).
Música: Lasse Lunderskov, Country Joe McDonald, Andy Sundstrøm, Ben Webster.
Producción: Klaus Pagh, Henrik Sandberg.
Productora: Dans-Svensk / SBA.
Reparto:
- Paul Valjean (Joey).
- Wayne Rodda (Carl).
- Ulla Koppel (Nys).
- 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.
- Mette Aare Thorse.
- Marianne Bergh.
- Maj Wechselmann.
- Ben Webster (Himself - Saxophonist).
- Maria Stenz.
- Bamse Kragh-Jacobsen.
- Marie France Hamou.
- Roger de Monenstral.
- Marcel Doumerg.
- Jacques Spezia.
- Francoise Heselman.
- Jens Jørgen Thorsen.
Género:
- Drama urbano, Comedia dramática, Comedia erótica / Sexo, Jazz, Adaptaciones literarias.
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- Delicias danesas
- [filmo de ficción] El festín de Babette (1987)
Un saludo.
