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- "Barney’s Version" is based on a 1997 novel by Mordecai Richler, whose The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) is also the life story of a flawed but lovable Jewish character from Montreal.
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Barney's Version is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Richard J. Lewis, written by Michael Konyves, and based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler.
Dec 23, 2010 · In reality, it’s just the 67-year-old Barney’s version of the truth, told with frequent digressions, gratuitous slags, cynical observations and suspicious mental lapses that are a riot on the...
"Barney’s Version" is based on a 1997 novel by Mordecai Richler, whose The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) is also the life story of a flawed but lovable Jewish character from Montreal. Barney’s story is told in retrospect, in the form of a response to a book written by a cop who is convinced Barney murdered his best friend.
Sep 23, 2022 · The picture is based on the book of the same name by the Canadian writer Mordechai Richler: his parents are Jewish emigrants from Russia. Richler has written ten major novels, and Barney’s Version (originally called Barney’s Version, Barney’s Version) is his last book, published in 1997, four years before the writer’s death.
Feb 18, 2011 · Barney's Version: Directed by Richard J. Lewis. With Paul Giamatti, Macha Grenon, Paul Gross, Atom Egoyan. The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
- (26K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Richard J. Lewis
- 2011-02-18
Dec 3, 2010 · Directed by Richard J. Lewis. Comedy, Drama. R. 2h 14m. By A.O. Scott. Dec. 2, 2010. Barney Panofsky, a Montreal policeman’s son, meets his third wife at his second wedding, a gilded gala that he...
Jan 14, 2011 · Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel Barney's Version-- which BARNEY'S VERSION is based on -- plays with the idea of the "unreliable narrator." Barney tells his story after the onset of Alzheimer's disease, and then his notes are re-edited by his son, so it's hard to know what's 100% accurate.
