Product DescriptionSuffused with the improvisational playfulness of the French New Wave and brimming with naked flesh and explicit scenes, Jens Jorgen Thorsen's freewheeling adaptation of Henry Miller's notorious novel offered a different kind of American in Paris and pushed the boundaries of sex on the screen. America pushed back: the film was seized on charges of obscenity in 1970 and condemned by the Catholic bishops review board. Though hardly tame by modern standards, it's less an underground classic than a curious timepiece. Paul Valjean is a colorless star, and behind the hedonism and erotic adventures is a chauvinist portrait of sexual relations (Philip Kaufman's Henry and June offers a more interesting take on Miller). See Quiet Days in Clichy for the marvelous black and white images of late-1960s Paris, an energetic supporting cast (many of them actual Parisian streetwalkers, according to legend), and Country Joe McDonald's ribald songs. --Sean Axmaker - Actors: Marianne Bergh, Elsa Jackson, Britten Jensen, Anne Kehler, Ulla Koppel
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
- Audience Rating: Unrated
- Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Dubbed): Danish
- Region Code: 0
- Release Date: 2004-01-27
- Running Time: 91 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 1970
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