A soap opera of a film: a number of single people in San Francisco, many of whom live in the same, somewhat cramped building, pursue and reflect on romantic relationships.
The characters include a self-parodistic grunge rock singer, a nauseatingly self-satisfied town planner with a fixation with trains, and the heroine, who attempts to meet men by making a video. She is not that pretty, sadly, so it is all a bit of a strugglefor her.
All this is fairly slickly made, and not humourless, but it is all somehow unpleasant, mainly because the characters are all so unlikeable, possessing neither interesting nor virtuous characters, nor displaying good taste.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Beautiful Girls (1996): review: 6.5/10
A pianist returns to his home town for a school reunion in wintry Minnesota where he meets his old friends and finds a sort of romantic connexion with a young girl.
The film is solidly made and well acted, but suffers from an excess of sincerity, therefore making unsurprising points about growing older and settling down.
The film is solidly made and well acted, but suffers from an excess of sincerity, therefore making unsurprising points about growing older and settling down.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Barfly (1987): review: 6/10
A dissolute writer engages in fist-fights and drinks heavily in the bars he frequents in LA. He meets a woman and moves in with her: they drink a lot and hang about bars.
The film begins very slowly but later picks up thanks to Faye Dunaway's charm.
It can be compared to "Factotum": both feature Charles Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, and the plotlines are fairly similiar.
However, "Factotum" is more beautifully filmed, showing considerable sensitivity to urban locations and interiors. Moreover, the plot of "Factotum" is much more varied, and Dillon's acting is subtler: heis more convincing as a successful writer than Rourke.
The film begins very slowly but later picks up thanks to Faye Dunaway's charm.
It can be compared to "Factotum": both feature Charles Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, and the plotlines are fairly similiar.
However, "Factotum" is more beautifully filmed, showing considerable sensitivity to urban locations and interiors. Moreover, the plot of "Factotum" is much more varied, and Dillon's acting is subtler: heis more convincing as a successful writer than Rourke.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Factotum (2005): review- 9/10
Matt Dillon is magnificently world weary as the struggling writer, stumbling from job to job in St Paul, Minnesota.
This film is Norwegian and there is more than a little of Hamsun's "Hunger" in all this, though the film is based on Bukowski.
Very beautifully shot, with great music too.
This film is Norwegian and there is more than a little of Hamsun's "Hunger" in all this, though the film is based on Bukowski.
Very beautifully shot, with great music too.
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