Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)

Original title

Storie di ordinaria follia

Directed by

Marco Ferreri

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 77 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poet and alcoholic named Charles Serking drifts through life in a haze of drinking and casual sex. He becomes obsessed with a mysterious young woman who resists his advances.

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What happens

Tales of Ordinary Madness (Italian: Storie di ordinaria follia, French: Contes de la folie ordinaire) is a 1981 film by Italian director Marco Ferreri. It was shot in English in the United States, featuring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti in the leading roles. The film's title and subject matter are based on the works and the person of US poet Charles Bukowski, including the short story The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (published by City Lights Publishing in the 1972 collection Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness). The film's protagonist, Charles Serking, is based on Bukowski's autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. At the time, the director Taylor Hackford owned the rights to the Chinaski name, having acquired them when he optioned Bukowski's 1971 novel Post Office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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