Barfly
The film centers on Henry Chinaski who spends almost time drinking in the bar. One day, he confronts a alcoholic- Wanda and falls in love with her. Then, He becomes famous by dint of his poems but what is the last choice?
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
1944, Sacramento, California, USA
1970
1 February 1934, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1911, San Francisco, California, USA
6 March 1935, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
July 20, 2006
A lowlife seriocomedy.
March 23, 2010
The first four letters say it all.
April 27, 2003
Rourke and Dunaway are dynamite
January 13, 2012
As I write about Barfly, I do seem to be talking myself into greater admiration for it, or at least into a sense of welcome design beneath its superficial inertia.
August 08, 2002
A terrific little film that features the best performance Mickey Rourke has ever given. It drags you into its world and makes you care about the characters.
August 27, 2004
An audacious movie about skid-row existentialism.
June 05, 2009
Charles Bukowski's semi-autobiographical short story-cum-screenplay is rich fodder for filmmaker Schroeder, who squeezes all the available juice out of it in a sensitively directed film
January 05, 2004
Captures Bukowski well.
March 17, 2012
Mickey Rourke gives a splendid performance as Bukowski's alter ego, the boozy, offbeat and eccentric writer, and he also brings the best out of Faye Dunaway as his unstable companion.
