Hamer's film has a calm acceptance of Bukowski that almost makes it feel like a Jim Jarmusch film. In fact, 'Factotum' is uncomfortably different.

Most likely, Schroeder presented Bukowski the way most of us read Bukowski.with emotion and drama and sarcasm and bitterness and hopelessness and just about every other negative emotion in the book. In 'Barfly,' Barbet Schroeder turned the film into a sort of hyperactive look at an immensely talented but utterly hopeless writer. Odds are strong that even diehard Bukowski fans are going to watch the film, get to the end, and think to themselves 'Man, that ain't Bukowski.' Despite the involvement of Bukowski's widow, Linda, and Black Sparrow Press, Bukowski's longtime publisher, 'Factotum' is less dark, less gritty and less ugly than 'Barfly.'Īs directed by Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer, 'Factotum' cuts the crap, plays down the drama and just presents Bukowski as a drinking, writing and fucking man who seldom held a real job for more than a few days either because he was so drunk he couldn't function or because he just didn't give a damn. 'Factotum,' quite simply, has a limited audience.

Over 10 years after Bukowski's death, Chinaski is back in 'Factotum,' a vastly different film than 'Barfly' with Matt Dillon as Chinaski.

Urn:oclc:799285657 Republisher_date 20170627114131 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 290 Scandate 20170626105301 Scanner you ever read the 'About Us' section on, my original website, then you already know that Charles Bukowski, on whose novel 'Factotum' is based, is one of my favorite authors and, hands down, my favorite poem.Ĭinematically, we first met Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, in the vastly under-appreciated 'Barfly,' a film starring Mickey Rourke for which Bukowski wrote the screenplay. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:30:55 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1152914 Boxid_2 CH129925 City Santa Rosa, CA Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 21.

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