The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her.
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002
Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec
Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...
“没有人、也没有任何地方能永远真实”,戈利亚尔达·萨皮恩扎(Goliarda Sapienza)在《怀疑的确定性》(Le certezze del dubbio)中写道。这部作品讲述了一位作家因一次疯狂而意外的行为入狱的故事。在罗马的雷比比亚监狱中,她与几名年轻囚犯相遇,这段经历成为她某种意义上的“重生”契机。出狱后,在罗马那个仿佛时间停滞的酷热夏日里,她继续与那些曾建立深厚羁绊、如今同样重获自由的女性们会面。一种深刻的关系由此展开,并对她的生活产生了决定性影响——这种纯粹的情感联结,是外界永远无法理解的。这位作家正是戈利亚尔达·萨皮恩扎本人,而这是她亲口讲述的、属于她的故事。
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