Factotum Critic Reviews
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The film looks great on the screen, and Hamer has commissioned a terrific musical score from Kristin Asbjornsen, who has set a few of Bukowski's poems to haunting, jazzy music.Read the full review
The result is 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.Read the full review
Like the film itself, Mr. Dillon’s performance works through understatement.Read the full review
A grim and sometimes funny examination of life on the margins and of a singular artist's world.Read the full review
In a medium generally about action and momentum, Factotum is largely concerned with inaction and inertia.Read the full review
Matt Dillon is pitch-perfect as Bukowski's alter ego Hank Chinaski.Read the full review
Looks steam-cleaned, and that can't be right.Read the full review
After a while, Factotum surrenders to monotony and only the performances are likely to retain the viewer's interest.Read the full review
Arguably one of the best adaptations of Bukowski's work, even compared with Bukowski's own script for 1997's "Barfly," deadpan timing and ace perfs bring out the morose humor and surprising warmth in the often miserabilist scribe's voice.Read the full review
It's too bad that the film was directed by the Norwegian minimalist Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories), who makes a fetish of building scenes around silence.Read the full review
