when it explode onto screen in the mid 1980 and oscar® nominate directordominique deruddere film crazy love divide critic and audience a fewfilms before or since . champion by godfather director francis ford coppola and the film be pickedup for u distribution . star like madonna and sean penn attend the lapremiere . but the film shock subject matter and startle imagery be too rich a combination for audience at the time . the film vanish from sight and become an instant cult classic much write about but seldom see and now reappraise a one of the most underrated film of the 1980 . take his cue from story by cult american author charles bukowski and deruddere film tell the story of a man life via three night and spread over 20 year . we see his hero and harry voss and first a a romantic young boy of 12 and then a an acne ridden teenager and lose in unrequited love and and finally a a drink sodden drop out and for whom no act be too dreadful to contemplate . with terrible and yet deeply move consequence . it a film that and once see and be never likely to be forget . a film with a unique and bitter sweet and poetic mood that manage to be funny and tragic at the sametime . a minor masterpiece .