This is the second feature by a young french director named jean jacques beineix whose first film the 1981 hit diva also was.
The gutter and the moon.
The moon is in the gutter lyrics.
With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading.
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.
The moon is in the gutter and the stars wash down the sink i am the king of the blues i scrape the clay off my shoes and wade down the gutter and the moon the moon blinds my eye with opal cataracts as i cut through the saw mills and the stacks leaping over the gully where i would one day take lucy then wash up my hands in the gutter and the moon.
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.
The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.
The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.
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.
But goodis does not flinch once in setting forth a narrative that drips with despair and utter hopelessness.
It s a short book and the plotting is a little thin.
From the album from her to eternity 1984.
The moon in the gutter french.
Directed by jean jacques beineix.
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.
She is a wealthy elusive woman.
They try hard to get together.
October 23 2004.
He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered.
The moon is in the gutter and the stars wash down the sink i am the king of the blues i scrape the clay off my shoes and wade down the gutter and the moon.