David Goodis’s story gets lost in the flashy film-making, but Beineix is at his best when he sets out to astonish his audience.Īlso in the cast are Beatrice Reading, Gabriel Monnet, Dominique Pinon, Milena Vukotic, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Bernard Farcy, and Anne-Marie Coffinet. But the pace of the film is so slow in a long running time of 137 minutes, and the emphasis on certain shots so symbolic that the film begins to reassemble a heartless exercise in trendy camera angles and ponderous sentiments. There is a sterling performance from Kinski as Loretta Channing, the beautiful rich woman the hero meets, and Abril is impressive as Bella, the possessive mistress of Gérard. The director of Diva (1981) and Betty Blue (1986) also created this far less likable movie, with Depardieu unable to make a good impression as docker Gérard Delmas, a man obsessed with his dead wife and the man who raped his sister, who committed suicide. ‘We’re born in the gutter… where the stars gleam in the water.’ĭirector Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1983 French revenge-obssessed drama The Moon in the Gutter is based on a novel by David Goodis, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski and Victoria Abril. The Moon in the Gutter ** (1983, Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril) – Classic Movie Review 11,333
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