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Blue Underground has again resuscitated a notorious sex film of the past. This time the hot rediscovery is Quiet Days in Clichy (Stille dage i Clichy), a saucy b&w erotic epic that appears to be an honest attempt to recreate Henry Miller's banned novel for 1970's swinging, liberated free love generation.
Even though the film was shot in English, according to the authoritative notes on this DVD edition, it didn't get very far in the United States. Henry Miller's books had come out of hiding a few years earlier, but customs officials exercising loopholes in import rules took the opportunity to seize prints as they arrived in America.
Although there is explicit material - no fake sex here - Quiet Days in Clichy is not shot like a porn film. There's nothing particularly exciting for fans of post - Deep Throat material. Most of the 'cast' acts remarkably well, as if it's what they did all day in their real lives, and the show plays naturally, unforced. In the realm of erotic cinema, that's high praise in itself.
Every so often, the Miller philosophy is expressed through a little character rant on the sidewalk, or voiceover. The idea of eating, having sex, contributing nothing and accomplishing nothing except living a pleasant life of sensory adventures doesn't come off as very attractive. Joey and Carl are certainly happy with themselves, and, well, God bless 'em. I tend to think that their disaffected use and abuse of others (they're uninterested in drugs or heavy drink, I guess) would not only become tiresome, but require some steady source of income. They also aren't going to be young forever. Carl wastes some pity on himself for letting a particularly wonderful woman get away, and that's as sentimental as things get. Lucky girl.
Quiet Days in Clichy offers a sex fantasy where our heroes have the edge on the rest of the square world. But even casual sex is a relationship, relationships always have givers and takers, and people suffer when they are used, even if they're paid. Perhaps it's only because the film is so well made, that it exposes Henry Miller's philosophy as selfish and squalid, fit only to sell dirty books. --
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
You see, this is why reading quotations is good for you. Every now and then you stumble upon something someone said that turns out to be the key to happiness. Now, safely armed with the knowledge that I am, indeed, the happiest man alive, I am going to stop being miserable and do some vigorous jerking off by way of celebration.
Click on the book cover below to download Henry Miller's infamous book,
Quiet Days in Clichy (in English). Book formats: pdf and html.
I encourage you to get the whole movie for the simple reason that it was banned, therefore it needs to be seen :) Though no masterpiece, it still deserves a place in your collection.
http://avaxhome.ws/video/video_time/seventies/quiet_days_in_clichy.html
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