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Ask the Dust
2006 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Robert Towne
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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All good. If you haven't seen it, the movie version of Ask The Dust by John Fante (one of Bukowskis idols) was also enlightening. There's a lot of attention being paid to the novels in this thread. His most impactful stuff was the poetry, though. Novels paid the bills, AFAIU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fante
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_the_Dust_(film)