![]() ![]() ![]() 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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