286. there's a bluebird in my heart

Based on Dannie M. Martin's novel The Dishwasher, A Bluebird in My Heart is a Belgian-French thriller-drama directed and written by Jérémie Guez. The film features performances by Roland Møller, Veerle Baetens, Lola Le Lann, and Lubna Azabal. 

Jeremie Guez has earlier collaborated on the biopic Yves Saint Laurent and the zombie flick The Night Eats the World.

The story is universal, but the presentation is exciting. An ex-con (Roland Møller) trying to lead a peaceful, reformed life finds shelter at a motel run by a single mother (Veerle Baetens) and her daughter, Clara (Lola Le Lann). 

However, the peace and safety he enjoys are shattered when Clara is assaulted, prompting him to confront his past demons.

When I watched the film, I was unfamiliar with the director and Dannie M. Martin’s book The Dishwasher, but I was surprised by its title because I knew Charles Bukowski’s poem with the same name.

Sharing the beautiful poem "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
 wants to get out
 but I'm too tough for him,
 I say, stay in there, I'm not going
 to let anybody see
 you.
 there's a bluebird in my heart that
 wants to get out
 but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
 cigarette smoke
 and the whores and the bartenders
 and the grocery clerks
 never know that
 he's
 in there.
 
 there's a bluebird in my heart that
 wants to get out
 but I'm too tough for him,
 I say,
 stay down, do you want to mess
 me up?
 you want to screw up the
 works?
 you want to blow my book sales in
 Europe?
 there's a bluebird in my heart that
 wants to get out
 but I'm too clever, I only let him out
 at night sometimes
 when everybody's asleep.
 I say, I know that you're there,
 so don't be
 sad.
 then I put him back,
 but he's singing a little
 in there, I haven't quite let him
 die
 and we sleep together like
 that
 with our
 secret pact
 and it's nice enough to
 make a man
 weep, but I don't
 weep, do
 you?