Moon In Gutter

They try hard to get together.

Moon in gutter.

In the rough guide to crime fiction 2007 barry forshaw cites the moon in the gutter as his representative goodis text in arguing that of all the noir novelists goodis comes the closest to the existential angst of camus and sartre. La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix it was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival. Although it immediately followed beineix s big commercial success diva and featured two very big stars gérard depardieu and nastassja kinski the moon in the gutter was not well received by critics or audiences and failed. He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered.

Directed by jean jacques beineix. The moon in the gutter french. This is the second feature by a young french director named jean jacques beineix whose first film the 1981 hit diva also was. The moon in the gutter is a fantastic read if you don t mind fiction where there isn t a single character who is any better off at the end than they were at the beginning.

In between diva and betty blue director jean jacques beneix made the loopiest adaptation of a david goodis novel yet the moon in the gutter quite a r. She is a wealthy elusive woman. From gutter helmet of new england to moon associates inc. It s a short book and the plotting is a little thin.

But goodis does not flinch once in setting forth a narrative that drips with despair and utter hopelessness. The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring. Moon in the gutter month by month 2020 3 jul 2020 1 jun 2020 1 feb 2020 1 2019 1 jan 2019 1 2018 6 nov 2018 3 aug 2018 2 jun 2018 1 2017 19 nov 2017 1 aug 2017 1 jun 2017 1 may 2017 5 apr 2017 11 2016 6 aug 2016 1 jul 2016 1 mar 2016 2 jan. The moon in the gutter 1983 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.

It is all style and no heart and the giveaway is that we never really care about the characters even though each one has a suitably tragic story. With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading. The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring. October 23 2004.