"Without a doubt, "Quiet Days in Clichy" was the happening in Lübeck. 37-year old director Jens Jørgen Thorsen has made neither a literary adaptation nor created speculative visual images of the blazing sex scenes from Miller's book. He has rather translated the spirit of the Miller-specific bohemian lifestyle in 1930s Paris into a very modern, novel filmic language without heavy-handedly modernizing the story. Thorsen works with comic strip elements and he uses a rhythmically associative montage that harmonizes perfectly with the music. He consciously shot in the streets and bistros of modern-day Paris, the cars, the jukeboxes, the cinema adverts are all taken from the present. "I intentionally refrained from artificially setting the film in the 1930s, because Miller's book is timeless. The – autobiographical – situations of a poor, young writer living in Paris could just as well take place today in exactly the same way," said Jens Jørgen Thorsen in an interview in Lübeck." (Frauke Hanck, Die Welt, 29.10.1970)