The Moon Is In The Gutter

The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.

The moon is in the gutter. He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. The moon in the gutter is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix. David goodis s the moon in the gutter comes close in its fashion to adhering to the aristotelian unities. The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.

With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading. The movie takes place mostly in a lower class neighbourhood or at the docks where gerard gerard depardieu works and focuses on the women in his life including his tigress girlfriend bella victoria abril as he tries to make sense of his sister s death. The third person narrative starts off with protagonist bill kerrigan a poor dockworker visiting the rat infested alley where his kid sister catherine died. 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 1983 is directed by jean jacques beineix diva betty blue. Its vivid visual style was noted by critics. It preceded a much better. It was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival.

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. In other words it accurately reflects the way the author viewed life. The moon in the gutter is thoroughly and unapologetically gritty and depressingly hopeless. 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 at the box office with only 625 000 admissions in france.

They try hard to get together. In the dockside slums of an unnamed city bill kerrigan is introduced as he morosely stares at a bloodstain in the gutter all that is left to remind him of his sister catherine who had committed suicide there almost a year before.