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Louise White, Paul Valjean, Wayne John Rodda, Ulla Lemvigh-Müller, Susanne Krage

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 S... read more read more...tates 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, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Jens Jørgen Thorsen

Release Date: January 1, 1970

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DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002

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  • jimbotender
    May 27, 2009
    jimbotender
    Intriguing as an experimentalist piece of voyeurism.I'm glad they kept the profane matter of Miller's objective risks but I believe they were lost in translation.A good effort to sum up with plenty of female nudity,tasteful of course.
  • jjb3332003
    September 27, 2011
    jjb3332003
    Having attempted to read Henry Miller and been bored, I found this beatnik surrealistic story to be much more entertaining on film from an artistic perspective. That being said, the insubstantial plot doesn't allow me to rate this any higher than I do.
  • sleepykiss
    October 11, 2009
    sleepykiss
    A silly, outdated Dutch sex romp flick with 2 uncharismatic leads that was banned in the 70s. Based on a Henry Miller novel, its just graphic sex with little story. Lotsa great b&w shots of Paris & Luxembourg tho. See it to say u have.

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March 26, 2009
Variety

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Howard Thompson
May 9, 2005
Howard Thompson, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
October 12, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Derek Adams
February 9, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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April 9, 2005
Film4

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