With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading.
The moon is in the gutter.
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 verse 2.
The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.
He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered.
It preceded a much better.
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.
Directed by jean jacques beineix.
The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.
David goodis s the moon in the gutter comes close in its fashion to adhering to the aristotelian unities.
She is a wealthy elusive woman.
Its vivid visual style was noted by critics.
In other words it accurately reflects the way the author viewed life.
It was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival.
The moon in the gutter 1983 is directed by jean jacques beineix diva betty blue.
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.
The third person narrative starts off with protagonist bill kerrigan a poor dockworker visiting the rat infested alley where his kid sister catherine died.
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.
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.
They try hard to get together.