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Barjo

Original title: Confessions d'un Barjo
  • 19921992
  • 1h 25m
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5.7/10
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Barjo (1992)
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
Barjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of t... Read allBarjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns down, he moves in with his twin sister Fanfan -- an impulsi... Read allBarjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns down, he moves in with his twin sister Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egotist -- and her husband Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the fo... Read all
IMDb RATING
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307
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  • Director
    • Jérôme Boivin
  • Writers
    • Jacques Audiard(dialogue)
    • Jérôme Boivin
    • Philip K. Dick(novel)
  • Stars
    • Richard Bohringer
    • Anne Brochet
    • Hippolyte Girardot
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  • Director
    • Jérôme Boivin
  • Writers
    • Jacques Audiard(dialogue)
    • Jérôme Boivin
    • Philip K. Dick(novel)
  • Stars
    • Richard Bohringer
    • Anne Brochet
    • Hippolyte Girardot
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    Anne Brochet
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    Hippolyte Girardot
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    Renaud Danner
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    • Director
      • Jérôme Boivin
    • Writers
      • Jacques Audiard(dialogue) (screenplay)
      • Jérôme Boivin
      • Philip K. Dick(novel)
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    • Trivia
      Based on the Philip K. Dick novel "Confessions Of A Crap Artist."
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      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Philip K. Dick Adaptations (2016)

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    7/10
    Rewarding But Flawed Adaptation of the Great PKD Novel
    So much about this very faithful adaptation of Philip K. Dick's autobiographical mainstream novel _Confessions of a Crap Artist_ is right, that its shortcomings are all the more regrettable. Surprisingly, transplanting the story from 50's California to contemporary France is not one of them -- this works quite well. But the two central characters, the eponymous Jack and his sister Fay (here simply "Barjo" and "Fanfan") have been significantly changed, and not for the better. Barjo is much less edgy and marginal than Jack Isidore, making the sympathy he eventually earns for himself far less of a revelation. And Fay Hume, the irresistible, dynamic and dangerous tornado of a woman (based on Dick's third wife Anne) at the heart of the novel, is here dumbed down to just another suburban housewife -- it's hard to see why the Dick character, Michel, leaves his "perfectly good wife" for her. But the other characters are wonderfully drawn (particularly Fanfan's husband), and the source material is so very strong, that the film remains rewarding (with a particularly wonderful epiphany of an ending). 8/10.
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    • Release date
      • July 7, 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Wyznania łgarza
    • Production companies
      • Alicéléo
      • Centre Européen Cinématographique Rhône-Alpes
      • France 3 Cinéma
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      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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