Factotum (film)

Factotum is a 2005 film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. The script also makes use of Bukowskis poems published in What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire and The Days Run Aways Like Horses Over the Hill as well as some of Bukowskis notebook entries published in The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. For example, Matt Dillon reads the poem Roll The Dice from the book What Matters Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire in a voiceover at the end of the film.

Bukowskis picaresque novel, also titled Factotum, was published in 1975. The book and the film both center on the character of Henry Chinaski, Bukowskis alter ego, who appears in much of his fiction. Although events in the book take place in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the setting of the film is contemporary.Henry Hank Chinaski Matt Dillon is working toward becoming a writer while struggling with alcoholism and holding various menial jobs. The film follows Chinaski as he works at, and gets fired from, various jobs, which include cleaning a massive art sculpture, delivering ice, working at a pickle factory, and working at a bicycle shop. In the course of sampling the smorgasbord of shortlived occupations, he meets up with assorted eccentric, frequently alcoholic characters. ........

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