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Thanks for the recommendation. I thought it was a well made film: good direction, good acting. Matt Dillon made the Bukowski-like character almost charismatic. The writer romanticised the alcoholic, making him more like a Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady type.

The glaring error was that Dillon not only never seemed to be drunk, but he was always clear eyed and fairly clean looking-- not possible for a drunk of his type.

Lili Taylor as Dillon's fellow dipsomaniac squeeze was first rate, and seemed more true to life.

I think the story would have been better told set in the 1940s, like the book, rather than in 2005. That probably would have added a prohibitive amount of production costs though.

Dillon seems a natural at portraying druggies and drunks. He was pretty good in 1989's Drugstore Cowboy, with the redoubtable William S. Burroughs in the cast..

~Doc

Thanks Doc. Yeah I hoped it might have been a bit more gritty too. Still, glad you enjoyed it, definitely worth a watch. I've actually still to visit Drugstore Cowboy, its been on my list for ages. Might do that this week actually.

the balad of jack and rose - 2005


and for the entire next week:

sátántangó - 1994