Mordecai Richler’s granddaughter has a tiny part in the movie version of his famous book Years back, one wasteful afternoon back in my CEGEP days, I was hanging out at a friend’s place when he pulled ...

A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti. Richler’s tome takes the form of Barney’s memoir (written in response to a nemesis’ slanderous allegations), allowing the ...

Paul Giamatti doesn't spring right to mind as the guy to play the title character of Mordecai Richler's sardonically funny and bitterly sad novel "Barney's Version." After seeing director Richard J.

Sometimes, when a movie emerges from a book, a crucial ingredient gets left out along the way. In the case of “Barney’s Version,” it’s the wit. Based on a rambling, time-shifting and often very funny ...

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I began to read Barney’s Version on an overseas flight, just prior to its publication, some 13 years ago. No doubt the passengers next to me thought I was demented. I chuckled and belly laughed and ...

Please note: one or two mild spoilers are in this review, in case you’ve not heard them already. If you haven’t, you might want to steer clear until you’ve seen the film. Paul Giamatti, actor par ...

IN Barney’s Version Paul Giamatti plays a hugely dislikeable, low-rent TV producer, Barney Panofsky, whose romantic travails we are, mystifyingly, supposed to care about as the story flashes back over ...

There's an emotional authenticity about Barney's Version, based on the novel by Mordecai Richler. It's the story of one man's life, not his whole life — which would include lots of information about ...

Despite the high-profile presences of Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman, one wonders how much Richard J Lewis’s film will change that situation. For while there is a lot to like in this witty, engaging ...

It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog of ...