Streaming Hunger (2001) Online

Hunger (2001)iMDB Rating: 7.2
Date Released : 6 June 2014
Genre : Drama
Stars : Joseph Culp, Robert Culp, Kathleen Luong, Redmond Gleeson. A sensitive writer from a small town faces spiritual crisis as he tries to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. Charlie Pontus (Joseph Culp) wanders around Los Angeles torn between his efforts to sell a screenplay and find his next meal. His natural optimism keeps him afloat as he walks the tight-rope between his love for the beautiful, exotic Ylayali (Kathleen Luong) and his desperate connection..." />
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A sensitive writer from a small town faces spiritual crisis as he tries to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. Charlie Pontus (Joseph Culp) wanders around Los Angeles torn between his efforts to sell a screenplay and find his next meal. His natural optimism keeps him afloat as he walks the tight-rope between his love for the beautiful, exotic Ylayali (Kathleen Luong) and his desperate connection to The Chief (Robert Culp), the Hollywood producer who has the power to give life or take it away. Stubbornly refusing to relinquish his principles, he sinks deeper and deeper into spiritual crisis, finally confronting God in a Jobian showdown. Ultimately, the story illustrates the difficult balance between artistic integrity and the commercial necessities of Hollywood. This "towering portrait of an artist's indomitable spirit" is based on "Hunger" (1890), the first existentialist novel ever written and the greatest work of Norwegian Nobel laureate, Knut Hamsun. This is the first digital ...

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A thrilling and visually beautiful rendering of a profound truth.

I went to see Hunger at a festival, and was left speechless. It took me a couple of days to fully digest the film. Hunger,both in its original manifestation as a 1890's novel by Knut Hamsun,and in this modernized version, is a parable of the human ego as itmakes the agonizing journey to confront reality, both on the grittylevel of survival and on the more esoteric level, which Andrew Harvey,Sufi scholar, describes as the place where the soul is, "burnt alive...mocked, derided, lacerated, opened up by visionary ecstasy.." And so the reason I reacted with such passion to this movie is simply that it is true; a thrilling and visually beautiful rendering of a profound truth. Maria Geise gets credit, not only for recognizing the beauty of the message in Knut Hamsun's masterpiece, but for bringing it to the screen in such an alarming, visceral, and scrappy (not in the sense of "fragmented", but in the sense of "a fighting spirit"),way.

I thought long and hard before coming up with the term to describe Joseph Culp's brilliant portrayal of the down-and-out screenwriter. It is nothing less than Chaplinesque--the character he gives us is at once endearing, annoying, pathetic,and deeply profound.

This is a movie for anyone who has dug deeply into the pockets of the soul and come up empty-handed. That would be all of us.