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 ...

There are three versions to every story, as the old movie mogul used to say. My version, your version — and the truth. Well, this is “Barney’s Version.” He could use someone to plead his case, too. As ...

“Barney’s Version” nabbed 11 Genie awards nominations, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced Wednesday at simultaneous media conferences in Montreal and Toronto. It’s closely ...

Two British actresses and an up-and-coming Canadian have been selected to play the three wives of Barney Panofsky in Barney's Version, the screen adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel. Producer ...

More details about Lantos's Barney's Version film, based on Richler's final award-winning novel, also emerged in industry papers and other media. To be co-produced by Serendipity Point Films and ...

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 ...

The spirit(s) of Mordecai Richler’s antic novel have been captured in this freewheeling adaptation. Paul Giamatti channels both Richler and Barney, the thrice-married anti-hero who goes from wife to ...

The Barney of Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler’s 10th novel, learned to tap dance as a boy, a talent that comes in handy when he decides to write his memoirs and finds himself tap dancing – ...

Mordecai Richler, who died in 2001, is a very big cheese in Canada. A salty and outspoken Montreal-Jewish novelist who's often compared to Saul Bellow, Richler was the dominant force in Canadian ...

Giamatti, who starred in that latter film, plays Barney Panofsky, a successful television producer whose company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, makes terrible soap operas that appear to be most ...