Moon in the Gutter (1983)

Original title

La Lune dans le caniveau

Directed by

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 17m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man searches the docks and bars of Marseille for the killer who raped his sister. He becomes caught between his desire for revenge and his attraction to a mysterious woman from a wealthy family.

noirmelancholicvisually strikingslowbleakdreamliketenseatmospheric

What happens

The Moon in the Gutter (French: 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 at the box office with only 625,000 admissions in France. Its vivid visual style was noted by critics. It preceded a much better-appreciated cult success from the same director, known in the U.S. and UK as Betty Blue. The film was based on a 1953 pulp-noir novel of the same name, written by David Goodis, but it was transferred in the film script from the docksides of Philadelphia to Marseille. La Lune dans le caniveau, according to AllMovie, "received uneven reviews on its initial release". It won a French Cesar Award for its production design. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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