"Barfly" made evocative use of the tawdry old drinking joints in the no man's land along 3rd and 6th streets between downtown Los Angeles and La Cienega Blvd. Both are needy, but also know exactly what they want from Henry.
The standout performances are from the women Henry gets to take him home - Jan ( Lili Taylor) and Laura ( Marisa Tomei). But I'm afraid it seemed more like a series of impressions - of Christian Slater, or Bruce Springsteen, or Marlon Brando - or all of them at once, mixed up like a slightly sweet cocktail made with cheap liquor. Maybe it was Bukowski, or the other Henry Chinaski ( Mickey Rourke in Barbet Schroeder's floridly Bukowskian " Barfly").
His performance kept reminding me of somebody. He's not romantic or bitter or disillusioned, just kind of wan and inert. Now, that may not sound noble, but it's my choice." Such is his credo for survival in the land of well scotch and the home of the minimum wage.ĭillon is a fine actor (at his best in the even dopier " Drugstore Cowboy"), but he doesn't seem quite slovenly or bloated or stinky or dissipated enough for this role. Trying to pick up his paycheck for his less-than-one-day stint as a lobby statue duster, Henry explains: "All I want to do is get my check and get drunk. "Factotum" is about a man who rarely works and occasionally writes, but only as fleeting distractions from his boozing. This movie may think it's about a man who boozes and works fitfully while pursuing his muse as a writer, but that's not the way it plays. who serves in a wide range of capacities," and that sounds about right. My dictionary says the title word means "an employee. Jobs, people, paydays - they all float in and out of Henry's life without much consequence. On his journey to cult fame, he takes (very, very briefly) a series of jobs that help him get from one drink to the next: iceman, taxi driver, brakeshoe stockboy, pickle sorter, whatever it takes between stints on unemployment. "Factotum," directed by Bent Hamer, is a picaresque Bukowski primer, adapted by Hamer and Jim Stark from the title novel and a handful of stories about the poetically debauched author's primary subjects: drinking, writing, women and gambling.
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