Barfly (1987)
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
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Schroeder could have taken some useful lessons from Ivan Passer's all but forgotten 1971 movie about junkies, Born to Win. 97 min.
Schroeder and Müller clearly looked at Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul several times as they plotted out Barfly.
Nostalgie de la boue—literally, “nostalgia for mud”—tends to motivate Barbet Schroeder's fiction films, which have focused on heroin addicts (More), hippies (The Valley Obscured by Clouds), masochists (Maitresse), and gamblers (Tricheurs).
Nostalgie de la boue—literally, “nostalgia for mud”—tends to motivate Barbet Schroeder's fiction films, which have focused on heroin addicts (More), hippies (The Valley Obscured by Clouds), masochists (Maitresse), and gamblers (Tricheurs).