洛朗(Laurent)家是一个富裕的上层中产阶级家庭。80多岁的老人乔治·洛朗(George Laurent)逐渐陷入老年痴呆。他和两个已婚的儿女托马斯(Thomas)和安妮(Anne)一起，正不自在地分享他在加莱(Calais)富丽堂皇的庄园。离异而冷漠的安妮，不得不承受因儿子皮埃尔(Pierre)的失职而导致的灾难性工作场所事故的影响。与此同时，托马斯的前妻因一场神秘的中毒而被紧急送进医院，导致他13岁的郁郁寡欢的女儿艾芙(Ève)与父亲和他的新婚妻子安娜伊思(Anais)生活在一起。毫无疑问，在这个家庭中，每个人都有不可告人的秘密，而随着洛朗家的命运与持续而不光彩的欲望交织在一起，一种特殊而又令人不安的联盟就会形成。但最终，有些更大的秘密即将揭晓……

　　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 2002
　　Author: Oreste (oreste.sl@sympatico.ca) from Montréal, Québec
　　Different 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...

　　舞蹈明星兼编导安东尼奥（安东尼奥·加德斯 Antonio Gades饰）正在筹拍法国作曲家比才的名剧《卡门》。痴迷悲剧《卡门》的安东尼奥，一直在寻找女主角卡门的合适人选。直到一个也叫做卡门的女舞蹈演员卡门（劳拉·德尔·索尔 Laura del Sol饰）出现，安东尼奥立刻决定由她来担任女主角。安东尼奥被年轻性感的卡门身上独特的气质所深深吸引，费尽心血培养她成为真正优秀的“卡门”。在排练中他渐渐对卡门产生了欲罢不能的爱欲，然而自由奔放的卡门却不愿受到约束而爱上他人。爱与死的纠缠渐渐模糊了戏剧与现实的界限，两人在不知不觉中陷入其中，不能自拔。
　　由西班牙著名导演卡洛斯·绍拉执导的爱情歌剧电影《卡门》，与他导演的《血婚》、《魔恋》并称为弗拉明戈舞剧三部曲。本片荣获1984年第56届奥斯卡金像奖最佳外语片提名，1983年第36届戛纳电影节评审团最佳外语片奖、最佳艺术贡献奖等多项大奖。