El director noruego Bent Hamer muestra en su segundo filme una cómica visión de la vida del escritor deprimido Hank Chinaski (homólogo del escritor real Charles Bukowski).

Matt Dillon, for our money one of the most underrated actors of his generation, embodies the perfect Bukowskian doppelgänger in this irresistibly cynical adaptation. Derived from the tales of the writer’s early working life, Factotum captures all of the vulgar poeticism that was this man’s essence.