Factotum

Factotum

  • Director: Bent Hamer
  • Writer: Charles Bukowski,Bent Hamer,Jim Stark
  • Countries of origin: Norway, United States, Germany, France, Italy
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 29, 2005
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Factotum: A Man Who Performs Many Jobs
  • Factotum is a comedy film directed by Bent Hammer and starring Matt Dillon and Lily Taylor.
    The film tells the fate of a writer who is frustrated in career, life, love, etc.

    Details

    • Release date April 29, 2005
    • Filming locations Fairmont Hotel - 9 S. 9th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    • Production companies Bulbul Films, Canal+, Celluloid Dreams

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $808,221

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $59,212

    Gross worldwide

    $2,708,087

    Movie reviews

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    • By Gage 2022-03-23 08:01:04

      When you write, you become a real writer

      The Beat Generation, the only one I have read recently is Kerouac's "On the Road", which happened to be read during the Spring Festival last year. The translation was very poor. It was translated by a local scholar who could not even figure out the car brand Yes, when it comes to the important jazz part, it's even more confusing. A little earlier, I read Ginsberg's poems when I was in middle school. At that time, I was very young, and I thought I knew little about the meaning of it. It was just...

    • By Katheryn 2022-03-23 08:01:04

      I mean tuning

      Abandoning the typical three-part drama, what is shown is a journey, a messy life.
      The photography is exquisite and steady. From the poster to most of the shots in the film, it seems to be a warm afternoon with warm sunshine, which makes the protagonist calm even in the predicament, and finds a continuation in each voice-over that seems to be out of place. Motivation for life.
      The male protagonist spoke slowly and leisurely. When faced with being fired, his seat was occupied, his...

    • By Yvette 2022-03-23 08:01:04

      Factotum - a reflecting life

      It didn't matter that the actor was Matt Dillon. The reason for the admission was that the director Bent Hamer was the one who filmed the Widowmaker's Kitchen. After seeing the Widowmaker's Kitchen, I knew the director's sense of humor, and at the same time brought out his insights.

      The story is adapted from Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiography of the same name, about Herny Chinaski, a self-proclaimed homemaker. He kept writing and sending it to his favorite magazines, though he...

    • By Stan 2022-03-23 08:01:04

      The resonance here is full of tragic grief.

      "My drunken soul is sadder than all the dead Christmas trees in this world." That's a pretty literary name. The story told in "The Miscellaneous Generalist" is nothing but the bumpy life of an ordinary person who maintains a rebellious normality. He said that he is a writer, addicted to alcohol, estrus, doing odd jobs, being dismissed, getting sick, persistent, mediocre, and keeping a distance from the rich and loving. His aura is very similar to Hank in "California Infatuation". He is also a...

    • By Gayle 2022-03-23 08:01:04

      If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

      【If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And,...

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    • By Alyson 2022-04-21 09:03:50

      The movie is so far...

    • By Alba 2022-04-21 09:03:50

      short and...

    • By Kattie 2022-04-21 09:03:50

      The male protagonist...deliberately trying to reproduce Bukowski's youthful appearance is very difficult...still have to focus on becoming a Chinaski, more depraved, more cynical, more drifting than...

    • By Alyson 2022-04-21 09:03:50

      I haven't got the book "Everything to Do", let's watch the movie and enjoy it. In fact, it is not as aggressive and unruly as I...

    • By Guiseppe 2022-04-21 09:03:50

      This is NOT a...

    Evaluation action

    Everyone in this world needs a job, or in other words, everyone needs an income. Charles Bukowski, a "beat" writer who was exiled from the American literary world for his entire life, had almost no "serious" job in his life, just like the hero in "Factotum". Although now everyone says that he is as great as Grujak.
    Whether it's 2005's "Factotum" or 1987's "Drinking Heart", screenwriter Charles Bukowski named the hero Henry Chinaski,...
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    Movie quotes

    • Henry Chinaski: All I want to do is get my check and get drunk.

    • [last lines]

      Henry Chinaski: [voiceover] If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

    • Pickle Factory boss: Writer huh? Are you sure?

      Henry Chinaski: No, I'm not. I'm halfway through a novel.

      Pickle Factory boss: What's it about?

      Henry Chinaski: Everything.

      Pickle Factory boss: It's about... cancer?

      Henry Chinaski: Yes.

      Pickle Factory boss: How about my wife?

      Henry Chinaski: She's in there too.