contains possible spoiler i consider myself quite well connect with the late 1960s and even be quite a joan baez fan in kindergarten . in the mid seventies a relative give me a big stack of old evergreen review magazine and and i start an interest in more counter culture thing from the 60 because of that and since i be just a child when much of it take place . one of the film evergreen release in 1970 that they give a lot of coverage to be quiet day in clichy and show tantalize pic of the cast in naked moment . and in 2004 i finally get to see what the hubbub be about . mainly a curiosity of the late 60 and of interest mainly for those interested in the art cinema of that time and this film be really another of those where philosophy and intellectual conversation be pad with people have sex and show even the intellectual have a base interest just like everyone else . but since it center around someone like henry miller and it high art apparently . certainly off to an interesting start and the film immediately get one to think though that there be a promise of more like the hardcore footage show right after the strange credit sequence . that might have be well actually and because instead we then mainly get character meander around paris and luxembourg and laugh a lot and wonder why they be never satisfy . here be some of the perplexing thing for me represent joey complains that ny could have leave him a few franc after he first meet her and give her his money and but joey actually insist she take all of it to begin with . the guys keep yak about how colette brain be in her genitals and that she just want to have sex ( a feeling they seem to have about woman in general ) and but by watch this whole film it seem joey and carl spend all their time try to get lay as well . the woman be portray a a bit mentally off and except for colette mother ( upon which carl then just say how hot she be and which seem like belittle her after she be kind to them ) . joey be a writer and but we rarely see him even do that and he just complain how he have no money and have nothing to eat and but can spend a lot of time walk around town and look for sex . suddenly while in luxembourg and and somehow with money and they wind up pour bottle of wine all over prostitute and let the bread they have to just wind up in the tub and go down the drain with the wine . if be suppose to appreciate joey and carl bohemian lifestyle and it doesn not help that they just waste food and drink after always say they never have it . hop there would be a resolve to the story and instead after a naked woman can not have sex with them because she be cry over the memory of her late husband and the others just sit there naked and laugh while the camera zoom in on their genitals . huhhhh . that it . i do not regret see this film after wonder for so many year what it be all about and and discover more curiosity from that era . it just that i think some people will find any reason to say it poetic mainly because henry miller be involve if this be not base on him and just a film of it own and i doubt a many folk would be worship it . have a film be make of a character base on henry miller wash dish for an hour and a half and i be sure these people would somehow come up with many a thesis on the amazing meaning of it . but it all just come down to silly naked people laugh and in my eye .