Moon in the Gutter
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Genre: World cinema, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 1983
Country: France, Italy
Language: French Language
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Gérard Depardieu, Victoria Abril, Milena Vukotic, Bernard Farcy, Dominique Pinon, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Bertice Reading, Gabriel Monnet
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' big, commercial success Diva and featured two very big stars, Gérard Depardieu and Nastassja Kinski, Moon in the Gutter was not understood 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 US and UK as Betty Blue.
The film was based on a 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.
Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy amateur photographer who prowls the docks in her early '60s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder looking for handsome men, and Bella (Victoria Abril), a poor but beautiful woman who is probably a prostitute, share affections
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