Save item Buy from Amazon UK. To place it in its context, this is a soundtrack album from the first of two films made based on Henry Miller's novella about his adventures in thirties Paris. Penniless and struggling to make his way as a writer, Miller found a room-mate and wrote of their social and erotic life in the book on his return to New York in , though the work remained unpublished until when it first emerged in France.
Its American publication had to wait until , after the obscenity court case over Miller's Tropic Of Cancer. This Danish film, directed by Jens Jorgen Thorson, thus came quite early in the public knowledge of the book, and very much takes its feel and spirit from Miller's work. The choice of Country Joe McDonald to lead the soundtrack was a particularly apposite one, as he was an artist at home with acerbic and cutting lyrics, but also with tenderness and humour. The soundtrack, much like the film and book, took on its own life, reflecting the various moods of the work.
Miller himself described Quiet Days In Clichy as "a dose of life which I administered to myself first, and which I not only survived but thrived on. Each one serves as a different mood piece, reflecting the shifts within both the novel and the film. There was to be another two-hour French film adaptation of Miller's novel directed by Claude Chabrol in , but arguably the shorter and earlier movie with this fine and varied soundtrack comes closest to capturing the feel of Miller's thirties adventures.
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