The Gutter And The Moon

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.

The gutter and the moon.

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. She is a wealthy elusive woman. It s a short book and the plotting is a little thin. 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.

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. They try hard to get together. Directed by jean jacques beineix.

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 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. 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 lyrics.

The moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring. From the album from her to eternity 1984. 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. 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.

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. With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading. But goodis does not flinch once in setting forth a narrative that drips with despair and utter hopelessness.