独眼男孩久保（阿特·帕金森 Art Parkinson 配音）和身体孱弱的母亲过着相依为命的日子。白天，久保靠着给村民们讲述怪力乱神的精彩故事赚钱，天一黑，他就必须回到家中照顾母亲。一天，久保回家晚了，曾经夺走了久保一只眼睛的邪恶姐妹（鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 配音）来到久保家，企图夺走他的另一只眼睛。在混战中，久保的母亲死去了，死里逃生的久保被迫离开村庄，在外流亡。
The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her.
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002
Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec
Different from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...
