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Factotum (2005)

Drama | 94 minutes
3,14 305 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United States / Norway / France / Germany / Sweden

Directed by: Bent Hamer

Stars: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei

IMDb score: 6,6 (15.541)

Releasedate: 25 April 2005

Factotum plot

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"

The story about Henry Chinaski, a man who works all kinds of jobs in and around Los Angeles in order to satisfy his true interests, which are drink, women, gambling and writing. Henry wants to write stories that no one will want to publish and focus entirely on pure poetry. Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski.

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Jack Sparrow

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Entertaining movie. Dillon is an excellent Henry Chinaski aka Charles Bukowski. Despite all the misery, he persists and takes the positive out of it, often with a poetic look. Fortunately, the film also contains a lot of humor.

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lpjdamen

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I think I had too high expectations for this movie. I loved Bukowski's book Factotum, but in this movie just about every scene and dialogue came across as if the script was still right in front of you. It goes without saying that a book and a movie aren't the same, and can't be the same, but I never felt like, 'Wow, Matt Dillon is turning Chinaski into a true slob and anti-hero.'

No. Anything but.

He does his best, I'm sure (as it should!) but it didn't come across unfortunately.

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ZAP!

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Have seen this at least 10 times now and still enjoy it. I've only read 1 book by Bukowski (not Factotum) and I try not to compare too much. Dillon does a great job, Taylor does too, and then there are memorable supporting roles from Tomei and Fisher Stevens. The atmosphere is fine and the soundtrack is also wonderful.

So full blow.

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