The Moon Is In The Gutter

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.

The moon is in the gutter.

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. With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading. 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.

It preceded a much better. Its vivid visual style was noted by critics. 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 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. The moon in the gutter is thoroughly and unapologetically gritty and depressingly hopeless. The moon in the gutter is a 1983 french drama film 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 scrape the clay off my shoes and wade down the gutter and the moon verse 2.

Directed by jean jacques beineix. The moon in the gutter 1983 is directed by jean jacques beineix diva betty blue. The third person narrative starts off with protagonist bill kerrigan a poor dockworker visiting the rat infested alley where his kid sister catherine died. In other words it accurately reflects the way the author viewed life.

She is a wealthy elusive woman. David goodis s the moon in the gutter comes close in its fashion to adhering to the aristotelian unities.