Barfly (1987)

Directed by

Barbet Schroeder

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 389 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poet and heavy drinker named Henry Chinaski spends his days in Los Angeles bars getting into fights and drinking. He starts a relationship with a woman who shares his love for alcohol and a chaotic lifestyle.

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What happens

Barfly is a 1987 American black comedy film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. The film is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski. The screenplay, written by Bukowski, was commissioned by the Iranian-born Swiss film director Barbet Schroeder, and it was published (with illustrations by the author) in 1984, when film production was still pending. The Kino Flo light, now a ubiquitous tool in the film industry, was specially created by Robby Müller's electrical crew for the bathroom scene with Henry and Wanda, which would have been difficult to light using the conventional lampheads available at the time. The film was "presented by" Francis Ford Coppola and features a cameo by Bukowski. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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