The Movie: Barfly

"At first Barfly seems merely a slice of particularly wretched life," observes David Ansen in Newsweek. "But under its seedy surface emerges a cunning comedy--and a touching love story." Vincent Canby, writing in the New York Times, sees the film as dealing "in the continuing revelation of character in a succession of horrifying, buoyant, crazy confrontations of barflies, bartenders, police and other representatives of the world of the sober." And Michael Wilmington concludes in the Los Angeles Times: "Whatever its flaws, [Barfly] does something more films should do: It opens up territory, opens up a human being. The worst of it has the edge of coughed-up whimsy and barroom bragging. But the best has the shock of truth and the harsh sweet kiss of dreams."


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