Quiet Days In Clichy (other)
Quiet Days in Clichy may refer to: * Quiet Days in Clichy (novel), by Henry Miller, published in 1956 * Quiet Days in Clichy (1970 film), Danish film based on the novel * Quiet Days in Clichy (1990 film) ''Quiet Days in Clichy'' (french: "Jours tranquilles à Clichy") is a 1990 erotic drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1956 autobiographical novel '' Quiet Days in Clichy'' by Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (Decemb ...

Quiet Days In Clichy (novel)
''Quiet Days in Clichy'' is a novella written by Henry Miller. It is based on his experience as a Parisian expatriate in the early 1930s, when he and Alfred Perlès shared a small apartment in suburban Clichy as struggling writers (at 4 Avenue Anatole-France).Robert Ferguson, ''Henry Miller: A Life'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991, p. 272. It takes place around the time Miller was writing '' Black Spring''. According to his photographer friend George Brassaï, Miller admitted the title is “completely misleading.” Plot The plot follows Joey, an American expatriate in and around Place Clichy. The book is divided in two parts. In the first, Joey and his equally destitute roommate Carl search for food and navigate relationships with various women. Chiefly, Joey with Nys, a prostitute he meets at the Café Wepler near Montmartre, and Carl with Colette, a fifteen-year-old runaway who moves in with them before eventually being retrieved by her parents. The second half, “ ...
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Quiet Days In Clichy (1970 Film)
''Quiet Days in Clichy'' ( da, Stille dage i Clichy), is a Danish film released in 1970 which was written and directed by Jens Jørgen Thorsen. Set in Paris, it features music by Country Joe McDonald and Ben Webster. Drawn from the semi-autobiographical 1956 novel by Henry Miller, updated from the 1930s to the 1960s, it gives reflections on and incidents in the lives of two young men sharing an apartment. The amount of nudity, sexual activity and crude language in the film has restricted its public showing in many countries. Plot The American writer Joey and his European friend Carl share an apartment in the Clichy-sous-Bois district of Paris in the late 1960s. What spare time and money they have is mostly spent pursuing women. A surrealist artist comes to their apartment, offers her services and paints slogans over the walls of the bathroom. In a café, Joey meets the amiable Nys and they go to a hotel. In the street afterwards, when she asks for money he gives her all he has g ...
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