Moon In The Gutter Goodis

It is a work of literature that gets beyond the categories of pulp or noir.

Moon in the gutter goodis.

Ultimately the film became a great success internationally winning four cesars. His next film la lune dans le caniveau the moon in the gutter was an. Five noir novels of the 1940s 50s is published with support from the geoffrey c. La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix.

The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia. A prolific writer of hardboiled crime goodis s success was modest he died in 1967. Goodis works deserve a place in the library of america which chronicles the breadth and diversity of america and its people. Dark passage film ink series the dark chase aka nightfall the burglar vintage crime black lizard the moon in the gutter midnight.

A riverfront the moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring. David goodis s the moon in the gutter comes close in its fashion to adhering to the aristotelian unities. The moon in the gutter takes place in philly on vernon street a neighborhood in terminal despair and goodis makes us feel it walking us through its crack brained shacks two hundred year old houses that are no better than dumps and the loneliest alley where the blood of william kerrigan s sister catherine has left a residual stain on the pavement. William kerrigan s pursuit of the riddle of his sister s death in an obscure alleyway provides the starting point for a tortuous journey into the darkness of all lost dreams.

It was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival. The moon in the gutter french. The moon in the gutter offers a bleak yet lyrical vision of poverty and of what goodis sees as the loneliness of the human condition. First published in 1953 the moon in the gutter was david goodis s 10th novel part of the loose trilogy including black friday and down there.

Here are links to the individual volumes in this collection for interested readers. Powered by justwatch the moon in the gutter is a sumptuous dazzlingly photographed melodrama that becomes alas relentlessly boring.