![]() 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. If 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. ![]()
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