loumiles-25568
crazy love, i saw this movie In my teens and it really affected me emotionally, it is a sad movie acted well, and I'm a huge bukowski fan, this movie often gets looked over, i think in tone it is actually one of the best adaptations of any of his work, especially the third act. (love is a dog from hell) the original title. deals with the material spot on. i have told a lot of my friends about it,but it seems very hard to find, if your a charles bukowski fan, i think this film is a must see. be warned though this movie is for adults only, as the material is pretty extreme. beautiful, ugly, satisfying movie. if you cant find a DVD copy, check your TV guides in Australia as you maybe lucky like me and see it on sbs TV
christopher-underwood
Rather effective three part tribute to Charles Bukowsi ( even if the first part is based on the semi autobiographical tale by his author of choice, Joe Fante). The middle section is more predictable than the others and all fairly shocking. The movie mixes music and tempos as well as mood to give just the right bitter sweet flavour with more than a hint of romanticism and drunkenness to give this the authentic air. The attempted initiation of the young boy, the acute acne humiliations and the necrophilia are all hard to take but the film is dressed well enough and a smile lingers despite it all. It also has to be said that the director has managed to convey a real sense of Bukowski's writings/life and that is no small feat in itself.
robert_e_campbell
this movie really has nothing to do with bukowski. there is the terrible acne, the yearning for love, and the alcoholism. other than that, when writer has made everything his own, and the people releasing this film should have billed it as "inspired by charles bukowski" not based of the poems of.it is told in 3 sections, and while the fist two sections are beautifully acted by the two boys/men playing "henry voss" (must not have gotten the rights to play henry chinaski), the 3rd and worst section is played by an actor trying to recreate Mickey Rourke in "Barlfy," only the make-up artists made him up to look even greasier. throw in masturbation with a 12 year old boy, a direct "elephant man" allusion, and an ending that makes one want to throw up, and you have a combination of ingredients that would make bukowski punch someone in the jaw. only i didn't even get that: i felt deflated and cheated. as a fan of bukowski's work, at arm's length, this is purely garbage.but i did get a kick out of thinking that it is possibly johnny depp playing guitar in the prom scene (which in bukowski's poem, he only looks through the window and observes, why the director decided to fictionalize this, i don't understand).rent this if you're a huge bukowski fan ready to be let down hard. it's in the same category of fante's "ask the dust" adaptation, about a struggling Italian writer in his teens, played by collin farrel.
andy-933
When it exploded onto screens in the mid 1980's, Oscar® nominated directorDominique Deruddere's film CRAZY LOVE divided critics and audiences as fewfilms before or since.Championed by Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, the film was pickedup for US distribution. Stars like Madonna and Sean Penn attended the LApremiere. But the films shocking subject matter and startling imagery were too rich a combination for audiences at the time. The film vanished from sight,becoming an instant cult classic - much written about but seldom seen and now reappraised as one of the most underrated films of the 1980's.Taking his cue from stories by cult American author Charles Bukowski,Deruddere's film tells the story of a man's life via three nights, spread over 20 years. We see his hero, Harry Voss, first as a romantic young boy of 12, then as an acne ridden teenager, lost in unrequited love, and finally as a drink sodden drop out, for whom no act is too dreadful to contemplate...with terrible and yet deeply moving consequences.It's a film that, once seen, is never likely to be forgotten. A film with a unique, bitter sweet and poetic mood that manages to be funny and tragic at the sametime. A minor masterpiece.
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