The Gutter And The Moon

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

The gutter and the moon.

David goodis is commonly ranked in the top tier of noir novelists and the moon in the gutter is commonly ranked among his best work. October 23 2004. 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. 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. 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. With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading. She is a wealthy elusive woman.

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. From the album from her to eternity 1984. This is the second feature by a young french director named jean jacques beineix whose first film the 1981 hit diva also was. 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.

He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. 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 is in the gutter and the stars wash down the sink i am the king of the blues i scape the clay of. The moon is in the gutter lyrics.

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