本片是由11个黑白短片综合而成的短篇集，枕星每个短片都围绕咖啡与香烟展开。一。罗伯托·贝尼尼（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）坐在一家咖啡馆喝着咖啡，枕星史蒂夫·赖特（史蒂夫·赖特 Steven Wright 饰）过来与他攀谈，然而两人似乎没有什么共同语言 ，只在重复表达对咖啡与香烟的热爱……二。一家咖啡厅里坐着一对黑人双胞胎兄妹，咖啡厅服务员突然对他们很感兴趣，即坐下与之热情交谈，然而兄妹俩似乎对这个不知所云的人毫无兴趣，只在继续抽烟喝咖啡……三。加利福尼亚某处的一家咖啡馆，流行歌手伊基·波普（伊基·波普 Iggy Pop 饰）与汤姆·威兹（汤姆·威兹 Tom Waits 饰）正在以抽烟的方式庆祝他们戒烟成功。该短片曾获1993年戛纳电影节短片单元金棕榈奖。……十一。这天夜里，喝着速溶咖啡、抽着卷烟的两个老人William Rice（William Rice 饰）与Taylor Mead（Taylor Mead 饰）谈论起过去的音乐。在这个有些忧伤的话题进行到一半时，Taylor像孩子般熟睡过去了……
回复 :单身貌美的方卉（白百何 饰），独自在大城市打拼，过着两点一线的生活。一天夜里，她突然听见门外有人暴力拉拽门把手试图闯入。虽然没有看清门外是谁，但通过保安小吴得知，自己楼层的监控坏了。这让方卉平静的独居生活突然笼罩在惊恐不安的阴影之中。当夜晚再次降临，熟睡中的方卉隐约察觉有人进入了她的房间，但她醒来后却没有发现任何迹象。渐渐，她的精神状态也开始变得越来越差。身边反复出现的几个男人，房屋中介高齐、保安小吴、公司领导李总、宠物医生郑飞，他们似乎都有自己不可告人的目的。随着好闺蜜乔小曼的离奇失踪，独居，几乎成为了方卉的梦魇……
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回复 :The American writer Joe arrives in Paris to research and write about Proust. He meets the Polish Karl and they become friends and costumers of brothels and restaurants. When the fifteen year-old Colette arrives in Paris, they both fall in love with her.Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.Very nice portrait of the thirties..., 23 April 2002Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, QuébecDifferent from many other Chabrol movies that follow "Hitchock-like" patterns, _Jours tranquilles à Clichy_ relates the days a young American writer (Henry Miller) spent in the Gay Paris of the early thirties, with his polish-descent friend and their young Colette, a 14 years old-ish girl with whom they both fall in love. The story in itself doesn't send us from a surprising even to another but slowly lifts the curtain over the prostitution, pornography, libertinage and partying that seemed to oppose Paris so much to New York, in the eyes of Miller, searching for a change from the dull like he lead before. The story is a quest for Proust and his lost time, a quest for a new life, for thrills, for truth in forgetting oneself...
