Factotum
a BENT HAMER picture
Synopsis
Henry Chinaski works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink, bet on horses, take up with women as rootless as he is and, above all, write stories that no one wants to publish. Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge, of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry.
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Press
"A character who would be treated as an unlovable or tragic figure almost anywhere else emerges here as a hero of self-expression."
EMPIRE MAGAZINE
"Dillon is fantastic… his best performance in a long time."
THE TIMES
"Wise, warm and wonderful…a terrific, possibly career-best performance from Matt Dillon…the dry visual and verbal gags, the unsentimental acknowledgement of life’s hardships and injustices, the tender generosity to characters are all virtues in themselves, but also ensure an unusually pleasing fidelity to the peculiar spirit of Bukowski’s writing and world-view. Appropriately, the movie’s blessed with a real love of language… marvellously funny and perceptive…Just terrific."
TIME OUT
"A surprisingly satisfying film, true to Bukowski and itself, a work that manages to make the man and his profane world more palatable without compromising on who he was and what he stood for…”Factotum” displays the director’s trademark absurdist sensibility and gift for whimsical humor."
LA TIMES
"Seek it out and it’ll touch your heart."
TOTAL FILM
Festivals
& Awards
Cannes International Film Festival
Director's Fortnight
Amanda Awards, Norway
Best Direction Nominee
Copenhagen IFF
Best Actress Award
Best Director Award
San Diego FCS Awards
Best Supporting Actress Award
Valladolid IFF
Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Film Festival
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Riga Nordic Film Festival
Half Life Achievement
Busan Film Festival
London Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Matt Dillon | |
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| Marisa Tomei | |
| Lili Taylor | |
| Fisher Stevens | |
| Didier Flamand | |
| Adrienne Shelly | |
| Karen Young | |
| Tom Lyons |
| Director | Bent Hamer |
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| Scriptwriters | Bent Hamer, Jim Stark |
| Producers | Bent Hamer, Jim Stark |
| Executive Producer | Christine Kunewa Walker |
| Associate Producers | Rainer Mockert, Karl Baumgartner |
| Meinolf Zurhorst, Reinhold Elschot, | |
| Peter Nadermann | |
| Cinematography | John Christian Rosenlund |
| Editor | Pål Gengenbach |
| Sound Designer | Petter Fladeby |
| Sound Recordist | John L. Sims Jr. |
| Music | Kristin Asbjørnsen |
| Art Direction | Eve Cauley Turner |
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