Factotum

(Factotum) Director: Bent Hamer, USA - NOR, 2005, English version / Czech subtitles, 94 min

Henry Chinaski is a young writer. He drinks. He likes wild women. Once in a while he even gets a job, but he is usually fired, because of his inability to adapt to the surrounding environment. But even in the worst moments of his life he doesn’t give up his detached point of view. With bitter irony he comments upon the hopelessness of life and the futile effort to break out of the dreary and desperate nature of everyday routine. If you have been waiting for a film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s short stories, here they come.